DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Dynamics of Livestock Trade in Northern Kenya: Trust and Social Relations in Market Networks

这篇论文研究了肯尼亚北部牲畜贸易的社会关系。该项目由肯塔基大学的一位文化人类学家发起，旨在探索信任在经济、环境和其他不确定因素下是如何运作的。本文将研究不同种族、不同类型的市场交易和不同类型的交易中，差异信息在交易者之间信任关系中的作用。该研究将侧重于牲畜市场，并将收集定性人种志（参与者观察、深度访谈、案例历史）和贸易户定量调查数据，以分析贸易关系的复杂性。有关信息、股票交易类型、种族和关系形式差异的假设将被检验。即将产生的新数据将推动个性化经济关系理论的发展，将增加我们对世界这一重要地区的认识，并将有助于培养年轻的社会科学家。这些信息对干旱土地和畜牧经济系统的决策者和规划者也很重要。

0003912Little / MahmoudThis dissertation research examines social relations of livestock trade in northern Kenya. The project, by a cultural anthropologist from the University of Kentucky, explores how trust operates in the context of economic, environmental and other uncertainties. The role of differential information in trust relationships among traders of different ethnicity, in different types of market trade, and in different sorts of transactions will be studied. The study will focus on livestock markets and will collect both qualitative ethnographic (participant observation, in-depth interviews, case histories) and quantitative survey data of trader households to analyze the complex nature of trader relationships. Hypotheses relating differences in information, type of stock traded, ethnicity, and forms of relationship will be tested. The new data to be generated will advance the theory of personalized economic relationships, will increase our knowledge about this important region of the world, and will help train a young social scientist. The information will also be important for policy makers and planners of arid land and pastoral economic systems.