Agrarian Change in Southeastern Mexico

在这个项目中，斯坦福大学的人类学家科利尔博士将完成对墨西哥东南部玛雅高地地区分层的纵向研究。在20世纪70年代S石油驱动的开发热潮和80年代S经济危机期间，该地区发生了巨大变化。在研究人口的繁荣时期，津纳坎坦的印度人从20世纪中叶的农民玉米农民转移到了更复杂的组合中--工资工作、运输和商业，以及使用化肥和杀虫剂的农业。利用人种学方法、访谈和家庭和生产预算的系统记录，该项目将记录扎纳坎特科生产的变化以及婚姻模式和礼仪办公系统的相关社会文化变化。这项研究将阐明农民在墨西哥最近资本主义农业发展中的作用，并将为当前关于高原玛雅文化和社会组织性质的思考提供重要的替代方案。此前在这一领域的大多数研究都没有分析印度与更大范围的经济和政治的关系中的政治经济学，因此科利尔博士的研究将为大量研究增添一个有价值的维度。

In this project Dr. Collier, an anthropologist at Stanford University, will complete longitudinal research on stratification among the Highland Maya of southeastern Mexico. The region has changed dramatically during the 1970's oil-driven development boom and the 1980's economic crisis. During the boom the study population, Indians of Zinacantan, shifted out of mid-century occupations as peasant corn farmers into a more complex mix of wage-work, transport and commerce, and agriculture using chemical fertilizer and pesticides. Using ethnographic methods, interviews and systematic records of household and production budgets, the project will document changes in Zanacanteco production and allied socio-cultural changes in marriage patterns and the ritual office system. This research will illuminate the role of peasantries in recent capitalist agrarian development in Mexico and will offer important alternatives to current thinking about the nature of highland Maya culture and social organization. Most previous studies in this area did not analyze the political economy of the Indian's relations with the larger economy and polity, thus Dr. Collier's research will add a valuable dimension to a large corpus of studies.