Dissertation Reserach: Ecuadorian Resource Conservation and Subsistence

论文研究：厄瓜多尔资源保护和生存

基本信息

批准号：
9603008
负责人：
Bruce Winterhalder
金额：
$ 0.68万
依托单位：
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
1997
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1997-02-15 至 1998-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9603008&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Dissertation Reserach Ecuadorian Resource Conservation

项目摘要

This project supports the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The project will investigate the behavioral ecology of resource use and common property management of the Ecuadorian Huaorani Indians, in the context of regional petroleum development. The Indian community are hunter-gatherer-horticulturalists who live in a lowland moist tropical forest in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The development industry has made wage labor available to the Indians, causing the men to migrate to work sites. The study will assess how the Indians are changing their relationship to forest resources in light of these new wage payments. The potential for ecological sustainability will be studied through analyzing indigenous conservation of faunal resources through an optimal diet breadth analysis. Economic sustainability will be investigated through time allocation, diet, and household diversification studies. This project will integrate two bodies of theory, from evolutionary ecology (foraging theory) and political ecology (common property theory), to contribute to a new perspective that is cognizant of human adaptability and the influence of larger economic, social and political context. The research is also valuable because it will contribute to our nation's expertise about this important area of the world.

该项目支持北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校人类学学生的论文研究。该项目将在区域石油开发的背景下调查厄瓜多尔瓦奥拉尼印第安人的资源利用和公共财产管理的行为生态学。印第安社区是狩猎采集者园艺家，他们生活在厄瓜多尔亚马逊低地潮湿的热带森林中。开发行业为印第安人提供了雇佣劳动力，导致这些人迁移到工作地点。该研究将评估印度人如何根据这些新的工资支付方式改变他们与森林资源的关系。将通过最佳饮食广度分析来分析当地动物资源的保护，从而研究生态可持续性的潜力。将通过时间分配、饮食和家庭多样化研究来调查经济可持续性。该项目将整合进化生态学（觅食理论）和政治生态学（公共财产理论）两个理论体系，以提出一种新的视角，认识人类的适应性以及更大的经济、社会和政治背景的影响。这项研究也很有价值，因为它将有助于我们国家在世界这一重要领域的专业知识。