Post-Colonial Trajectories of Violence and Socia Control Among Gebusi of Papua New Guinea

该项目支持埃默里大学的一位文化人类学家的研究，研究巴布亚新几内亚传统部落社会中暴力、社会控制和政府影响的变化模式。该项目使用调查员1980年收集的数据基线，对暴力发生率极高的热带雨林人口在向完全殖民后条件过渡期间的冲突和争端调解进行了严格的纵向分析。在巫术调查、村庄模拟和法庭案件中观察到的变化将得到基于当前人口普查信息和长期争议概况的经验数据的补充。更新1982年300人样本的家谱将能够系统地分析过去15年预计发生的大约100例死亡的原因和后果。这些死亡数据和由此得出的病历将被用来计算凶杀率的变化、按年龄、性别、施暴者/受害者关系、同居和其他暴力原因变化的暴力分布。这项研究将阐明在许多后殖民背景下影响暴力和社会控制企图的文化和政治变化的过程。将要收集的信息将促进我们对更大问题的理解，这些问题涉及当地遵守、默许颠覆或积极抵抗后殖民政府。这里分析的一般过程也将揭示工业化国家当地社区的暴力模式。

This project supports the research of a cultural anthropologist from Emory University, studying changing patterns of violence, social control and government influence among a traditional tribal society of Papua New Guinea. Using a baseline of data collected by the investigator in 1980, the project provides a rigorous longitudinal analysis of conflict and dispute mediation across the transition to fully post-colonial conditions among a rainforest population with an extremely high rate of violence. Observed changes in sorcery inquests, village moots and court cases will be complemented by empirical data based on current census information and long-term dispute profiles. Updating genealogies from a 1982 sample of 300 persons will enable systematic analysis of the causes and consequences of about 100 deaths projected to have occurred in the past 15 years. These mortality data and the case histories drawn form them will be used to calculate changes in homicide rate, the changing distribution of violence by age, sex, perpetrator/victim relation, coresidence, and other causes of violence. The research will illuminate processes of cultural and political change that affect violence and attempts at social control in many post-colonial contexts. The information to be gathered will advance our understanding of larger issues about local compliance with, tacit subversion of, or active resistance against post-colonial administrations. The general processes analyzed here will also shed light on violence patterns in local neighborhoods in industrialized countries.