Methods for tagging and mutating Arabidopsis genes with transposons.

该项目支持哈佛大学一名研究生在中国农村地区进行的人种学研究。学生将采访社区成员关于他们的历史观。重点不是流行记忆的准确性，而是从可用材料中选择和创造记忆的社会过程。通过参与观察和深度访谈，学生(以中国为母语，流利地讲当地语言)将系统地收集远近过去的图像和知识，分析个人对过去行为的合理化是如何具有道德和社会基础的。自1958年搬迁以来，当地社区是进行研究的合适地点，因此有一个特定的集体苦难事件需要处理。这项研究很重要，因为当地社区有很长的记忆力，这经常被用来证明当前的行动是合理的。理解塑造这些记忆的社会过程可以帮助我们理解和处理类似村庄当前的政治和社会行为。

This project supports the ethnographic research of a graduate student from Harvard University in a rural area of China. The student will interview community members about their notions of history. The focus will not be on the accuracy of popular memory, but rather on the social processes that select and create memory out of the available material. Using participant observation and in depth interviews the student (a Chinese native fluent in the local language) will systematically collect images and knowledge of the distant and recent past, analyzing how individual rationalizations of past behavior have a moral and social basis. The local community is an apt place to do the research since it was relocated in 1958, and thus has a specific event of collective suffering to deal with. This research is important because local communities have long memories which are often used to justify current action. Understanding of the social processes which shape these memories can help us understand and deal with current political and social behavior in similar villages.