DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Participation in Community-Based Timber Projects in Brazil

本论文的研究由文化人类学的学生问人口，文化，经济和政治结构如何影响社区成员参与在英亩，巴西木材开发项目。将研究两个涉及移民割胶工人后代的项目。 将评估各种项目活动的效益和成本，并研究个人选择在项目活动中的作用。 将收集多种数据来源，包括非正式访谈、观察、普查和正式报告。 将检验将个人水平变量与项目参与联系起来的假设。这位学生和她的巴西同事将通过揭示导致社区成员参与项目变化的结构关系来促进我们对参与性发展的理解，并将说明社会行为者如何通过参与来解释、谈判、抵制和改变项目。 通过研究个人参与和获得利益和成本的不同方式，研究将超越社区一级的措施，并为规划人员和当地发展组织提供重要的见解，促进参与性木材管理。 此外，该项目还增进了我们对世界这一重要地区的了解，并有助于培养一名年轻的社会科学家。

This dissertation research by a cultural anthropology student asks how demographic, cultural, economic and political structures affect which community members participate in timber development projects in Acre, Brazil. Two projects involving the descendents of migrant rubber tappers will be studied. The benefits and costs of various project activities will be assessed, and the role of individual choice in the project activities will be studied. Multiple sources of data will be gathered, including informal interviews, observations, censuses, and formal reports. Hypotheses will be tested relating individual level variables to project participation. The student and her Brazilian colleagues will advance our understanding of participatory development by revealing the structural relations which give rise to variations in community members' participation in projects, and will illustrate how social actors interpret, negotiate, resist and transform projects through their involvement. By looking at the heterogeneous ways in which individuals participate and derive benefits and costs, the research will move beyond community -level measure and provide important insight to planners and local development organizations concerns with promoting participatory timber management. In addition the project advances our knowledge of this important region of the world, and contributes to the training of a young social scientist.