Dissertation Reserach: Ecuadorian Resource Conservation and Subsistence

该项目支持北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校一名人类学专业学生的论文研究。该项目将在区域石油开发的背景下，调查厄瓜多尔霍奥拉尼印第安人在资源使用和共同财产管理方面的行为生态。印第安人社区是狩猎-采集-园艺家，生活在厄瓜多尔亚马逊地区的一片低地潮湿的热带森林中。发展行业为印度人提供了有偿劳动力，导致这些人迁移到工作地点。这项研究将评估印度人如何根据这些新的工资支付改变他们与森林资源的关系。生态可持续性的潜力将通过最佳饮食广度分析来分析土著动物资源的保护情况。经济可持续性将通过时间分配、饮食和家庭多样化研究进行调查。该项目将整合进化生态学(觅食理论)和政治生态学(共同财产理论)两个理论体系，以促成一个新的视角，认识到人类的适应性和更大的经济、社会和政治背景的影响。这项研究也很有价值，因为它将有助于我国在世界这一重要领域的专业知识。

This project supports the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The project will investigate the behavioral ecology of resource use and common property management of the Ecuadorian Huaorani Indians, in the context of regional petroleum development. The Indian community are hunter-gatherer-horticulturalists who live in a lowland moist tropical forest in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The development industry has made wage labor available to the Indians, causing the men to migrate to work sites. The study will assess how the Indians are changing their relationship to forest resources in light of these new wage payments. The potential for ecological sustainability will be studied through analyzing indigenous conservation of faunal resources through an optimal diet breadth analysis. Economic sustainability will be investigated through time allocation, diet, and household diversification studies. This project will integrate two bodies of theory, from evolutionary ecology (foraging theory) and political ecology (common property theory), to contribute to a new perspective that is cognizant of human adaptability and the influence of larger economic, social and political context. The research is also valuable because it will contribute to our nation's expertise about this important area of the world.