Demographic and Cultural Studies of Pastoral Intensification in Tanzania

莱斯利：这个项目是由科罗拉多大学的人类学家和北卡罗莱纳大学的人口统计学家共同完成的。这项研究将建立在十多年前的研究的基础上，研究导致坦桑尼亚马赛人从畜牧业转向农业土地使用的因果因素。通过由美国和坦桑尼亚研究人员进行的社会调查和密集访谈，该项目将研究家庭人口、历史和生存策略的变化，以解释促使从畜牧家庭经济逐步向农业家庭经济转变的制约因素和选择。东非牧民向定居主义发展的趋势是显著的，并影响了该地区的野生动物保护区。这项研究将解释由家庭一级的决定决定从一种谋生手段转到另一种谋生手段，并将提供对当地规划人员有价值的资料以及与世界上其他类似情况有关的资料。

9909631LeslieThis project involves the collaborative research of anthropologists from the University of Colorado in 9904044 and a demographer from the University of North Carolina. The research will build on over ten years of prior research to examine causal factors resulting in a shift from pastoral to agricultural land use by Maasai people of Tanzania. Using social surveys and intensive interviews conducted by US and Tanzanian researchers, the project will examine family demography, history, and changes in subsistence strategies to explain the constraints and choices impelling a gradual shift from pastoral to agricultural household economy. The trend towards sedentism by East Africa pastoralists has been significant, and has affected the wildlife preserves in the region. This research will explain the decision to move from one means of livelihood to another by household level decisions, and will provide information valuable to local planners as well as relevant to other comparable situations in the world.