Dissertation Research: Ethnography of a Development Project

论文研究：发展项目的民族志

• 批准号: 9501847
• 负责人: Vincent Crapanzano
• 金额: $ 1.17万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-10-01 至 1998-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9501847&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Ethnography; Development; Project

This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from CUNY. The student will conduct a case study of a development project in Cochabamba, Bolivia, instituted by a German development agency. Through intensive interviews, the student will examine the goals and objectives of the different actors in the project -- donors, administrators, experts, and the local people. The PROSANA development project will be studied to describe how the values of the German donors and Bolivian intermediaries and subjects intermesh, compare and contrast. By examining the development project as a process beginning in Germany and continuing in Bolivia, with interaction and back-and-forth negotiation instead of the simple picture of top-down development, the project will contribute a valuable case to the literature. This research is important because it will add to the nation's expertise about this important region of the world through advanced training, and will extend our understanding of how economic development works as a process of negotiation between different cultural systems. Increased understanding of the cultural component of development will help planners avoid mistakes based on fundamental misunderstandings and will be useful in designing programs that have greater chances of attaining their goals.

该项目涉及来自CUNY的人类学学生的论文研究。 该学生将对由德国开发机构成立的玻利维亚Cochabamba的开发项目进行案例研究。 通过密集的访谈，学生将研究项目中不同参与者的目标 - 捐助者，管理员，专家和当地人。 将研究Prosana开发项目，以描述德国捐助者和玻利维亚中介机构和受试者的价值观如何比较和对比。 通过研究开发项目作为从德国开始并在玻利维亚继续进行的过程，通过互动和来回谈判，而不是自上而下发展的简单情况，该项目将为文献贡献一个有价值的案例。 这项研究很重要，因为它将通过高级培训来增加国家对世界重要地区的专业知识，并将扩展我们对经济发展如何作为不同文化系统谈判的过程的理解。 对发展的文化组成部分的了解将有助于计划者避免基于基本误解的错误，并且在设计有可能实现目标的机会的计划中很有用。