Subsistence Change in Northeastern Zaire

小行星9402034 这项研究涉及两个民族志学者研究为什么在扎伊尔东北部的伊图里森林的一些觅食者采用农业作为生存策略，而其他人保持与当地农民的关系，以获得他们的饮食中的碳水化合物部分。 研究人员将在五年内每年夏天（每年的“饥饿季节”）研究一个觅食社区的经济决策和环境限制，测量田地大小和食物供应以及工作投入和劳动力供应。 这一假设是，当种植贸易食品短缺频繁、严重、可预测和区域性时，将采用农业而不是农产品贸易。 这项研究很重要，因为了解最广泛的社会中的经济行为是必要的，以区分什么是基本的人类决策下的稀缺性和不确定性，什么是资本主义市场关系的约束。 这种对原始森林条件下的生产和交换的研究将提供数据，帮助社会科学家促进我们对人类经济决策的理解。

9402034 Morelli This research involves two ethnographers studying why some foragers in the Ituri forest of northeastern Zaire adopt farming as a subsistence strategy, while others maintain relations with local farmers in order to obtain the carbohydrate portion of their diets. The researchers will study economic decisions and environmental constraints of a community of foragers every summer (the annual "hunger season") for five years, measuring field sizes and food availability as well as work input and labor availability. The hypothesis is that adoption of farming rather than trading for farm foods will occur when shortfalls of cultivated trade foods are frequent, severe, predictable and regional in extent. This research is important because understanding economic behavior in the widest range of societies is necessary to distinguish what is fundamental to human decision making under scarcity and uncertainty from what is constrained by capitalist market relations. This sort of study of production and exchange in primitive forest conditions will provide data that will help social scientists advance our understanding of human economic decision making.