Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Promissory Prestations. A Yucatec Village between Ritual Gifts and Development Cash Transfers

约翰霍普金斯大学的博士生Andres Dapuez将在Jane I. Guyer博士的指导下，对农业再生的传统仪式赠送与旨在产生社会和经济变革的发展项目直接现金转移之间的关系进行研究。研究人员将重点关注PROCAMPO（农业直接援助计划），该计划15年来一直向墨西哥农民提供资金，以稳定北美自由贸易协定（NAFTA）后的收入。PROCAMPO的现金转移和基于日历的仪式提供给各个领域，每个领域都唤起了关于规划、未来和利润的不同但相互关联的想法。研究人员将调查这些不同的时间性如何在质量上不同，相互交织，并影响PROCAMPO计划的实施。这项研究将在位于华盛顿特区的美洲开发银行、墨西哥城的政府办公室和墨西哥尤卡坦的一个土著村庄进行。Dapuez将采用多种社会科学方法，包括深度访谈、官方文件内容分析和现场观察。总体目标是构建一个民族志描述和分析PROCAMPO项目如何发展和沟通宗教和世俗对未来的态度，以及这些概念如何与被称为货物系统的政治-精神生活的复杂日历相互联系。这项研究既及时又重要。它将阐明土著农学家和发展官员如何预测墨西哥农村部门的未来。经过15年多的运作，PROCAMPO已经融入了农民的日常生活。目前，PROCAMPO作为支持墨西哥农业部门纳入北美自由贸易协定的过渡方案开始，其未来正在进行评估。除了更新送礼的社会科学理论外，该研究还将有助于理解PROCAMPO如何以及为什么成功或不成功。这项研究也将有助于社会科学家的教育。

Johns Hopkins University doctoral student Andres Dapuez, with the guidance of Dr. Jane I. Guyer, will conduct research on the relationship between traditional ritual gifting for agricultural regeneration and development program direct cash transfers intended to produce social and economic change. The researcher will focus on PROCAMPO (Program for Direct Assistance in Agriculture), which for fifteen years has been giving money to Mexican farmers to stabilize incomes in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). PROCAMPO cash transfers and calendar-based ritual offerings to fields each invoke different but interrelated ideas about planning, the future, and profits. The researcher will investigate how these contrasting temporalities differ qualitatively, are intertwined, and affect the implementation of the PROCAMPO program. The research will be conducted at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., in government offices in Mexico City, and in an indigenous village of Yucatan, Mexico. Dapuez will employ a mix of social scientific methods, including in-depth interviews, content analysis of official documents, and in situ observations. The overall goal is to construct an ethnographic description and analysis of how the PROCAMPO program develops and communicates religious and secular attitudes toward the future, and, how these concepts interconnect with the complex calendrics of politico-spiritual life known as the cargo system.This research is both timely and important. It will shed light on how indigenous agriculturalists and development functionaries prefigure the future of the rural sector of Mexico. After more than fifteen years in operation, PROCAMPO has been integrated into peasants' everyday life. Currently, the future of PROCAMPO, begun as a transitional program to support the Mexican agricultural sector's incorporation into NAFTA, is being evaluated. In addition to updating social science theory of gift giving, the resesarch will have the practical application of helping to understand how and why PROCAMPO has or has not been successful. The research also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.