Resources and Life Course Management Among Rural Pastoralists

这个项目支持两位人类学家研究 博茨瓦纳的牧民思考和管理他们的“生活 当然，这意味着他们的家庭规模，人口组成， 财富 重点是男性的生殖决定， 以牛为主要财富形式的社会， 这一系统主要是根据女性血统来计算后代的。 使用 包括深入访谈、 参与观察、时间分配研究和小规模 调查，研究人员将了解人们如何管理他们的 收入、财富和家庭关系，以实现他们的愿望。 安全和幸福的水平。 具体假设是 测试是从进化论中得出的。 这项研究很重要，因为我们必须了解男性的 生殖目标和战略，以管理 人口。 像这样的研究提供了案例材料， 理论的发展，让学者预测的影响， 旨在限制人口增长的政策。

This project supports two anthropologists studying how pastoralists in Botswana think about and manage their "life course", meaning their family size, demographic composition, and wealth. The focus is on men's reproductive decisions in a society where cattle is the main form of wealth and the kinship system reckons descent primarily in the female line. Using a combination of methods including in-depth interviews, participant-observation, time-allocation studies and small-scale surveys, the researchers will learn how people manage their income, wealth, and family ties in order to attain their desired level of security and well being. Specific hypotheses to be tested are drawn from evolutionary theory. This research is important because we must understand men's reproductive goals and strategies in order to manage the growth of population. Studies like this one provide case material for theory development to allow scholars to predict the impact of policies designed to limit population growth.