Dissertation Research: Social Change and Health in a Brazilian Indian Community

利伯曼这个项目涉及佛罗里达大学的一名文化人类学研究生，研究一小群南美印第安人的健康和医疗实践。这名学生将与印第安人一起住在巴西亚马逊地区的三个小村庄里，以评估与巴西国家印第安人机构(FUNAI)的不同接触对他们的健康和医疗实践的影响。使用汇编个人病史、饮食分析、人体测量、时间分配研究和人种学访谈的技术，学生将评估传统信仰体系的可行性。这项研究很重要，因为它提供了关于世界上为数不多的正在迅速变化的觅食者群落之一的信息。除了培训专业人类学家并提供有关世界这一重要领域的知识对美国科学的好处外，这种关于医学传统和实践的案例研究将提供宝贵的信息，可用于为任何州有关此类小而未整合的群体的政策提供信息。这项研究还有可能发现有价值的传统健康做法，这在其他情况下可能是有益的。***

LBP:\A9320285 Lieberman This project involves a cultural anthropology graduate student from the University of Florida, studying the health and medical practices of a small group of South American Indians. The student will live with the Indians in three hamlets in the Brazilian Amazon to assess the effects of varying contact with the Brazilian National Indian Agency (FUNAI) on their health and medical practices. Using techniques of compiling personal medical histories, dietary analysis, anthropometry, time allocation studies and ethnographic interviews, the student will assess the viability of the traditional belief system. This research is important because it provides information about one of the few remaining communities of foragers in the world, who are changing rapidly. Aside from the benefits to U.S. science of training a professional anthropologist and providing knowledge about this important area of the world, this sort of case study about medical traditions and practices will provide valuable information which can be used to inform policies of any state with respect to such small, unintegrated groups. The research also has the potential of discovering valuable traditional health practices which could be beneficial in other situations. ***