CAREER: Cash and the Social Economy of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation: Labor Allocations, Consumption, and Economic Development on the Periphery

工业化前的土著社会以家庭为基础，在“维持生计”的水平上组织经济生产，与以市场为基础的工业资本主义不同。在现代世界中，文化独特的土著社会在生存市场鸿沟两边的制度和交易之间流动。 这个职业项目涉及到一个年轻的研究人员在科罗拉多州立大学的人种学研究。 对南达科他州松树岭印第安人保留地的研究将分析经济生产如何在家庭网络和市场交易中发生。该项目将调查家庭如何利用时间分配和人种学参与观察的方法将市场和社会经济结合起来。该项目将研究消费和社交网络、现金需求、对新经济机会的反应以及性别、阶级、种族和民族的关系，以建立劳动时间分配和家庭消费的模型。这些数据将允许假设进行测试有关工资劳动，性别和社交网络。 来自大学和奥格拉拉拉科塔学院的学生将组成团队协助研究。 这项研究将推进我们对生存市场区别的理论理解，将培养学生的研究设计和方法，将增加年轻调查员的技能，并将帮助当地拉科塔学生考虑在大学深造。

Pre-industrial indigenous societies organized economic production on a "subsistence" level, based on the family and different from that of market-based industrial capitalism. In the modern world culturally distinct indigenous societies move fluidly between institutions and transactions on both sides of the subsistence-market divide. This Career project involves the ethnographic research of a young investigator at Colorado State University. Research on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota will analyze how economic production occurs both in family networks and through market transactions. The project will investigate how households integrate the market and the social economy using methods of time allocation and ethnographic participant observation. The project will study consumption and social networks, cash requirements, responses to new economic opportunities, and the relationships of gender, class, race and ethnicity to build models of labor time allocation and household consumption. The data will allow hypotheses to be tested relating wage labor, gender and social networks. Students from the University and Oglala Lakota College will work in teams to assist with the research. The research will advance our theoretical understanding of the subsistence-market distinction, will train students in research design and methods, will add to the skills of a young investigator, and will help local Lakota students to consider advanced studies at the university.