Discourse Analysis of Venezuelan Narratives

9408820布里格斯这项研究由瓦萨学院的一位社会人类学家进行，涉及记录和分析美洲原住民关于最近袭击他们贫穷的森林社区的流行病的叙述。发生了毁灭性的霍乱疫情以及麻疹和百日咳疫情，印度人认为这些都不是传统疾病。他们的故事将疾病描绘成由非印度人造成的，目的是削弱他们的社会。通过分析这些叙事是如何从印度到非印度语境形成、传播和传播的，该项目将研究疾病的象征方面是如何表现出来的。从这项研究中获得的知识将有助于政府机构和非政府组织与少数民族群体沟通，以改善该地区卫生危机的破坏性影响，并将加深我们对没有生物医学知识的少数民族群体如何形成他们自己的疾病文化模式，以及群体中的个人如何利用这些模式获得社会和政治利益的理解。这类知识对于处理族裔间接触的类似情况很有价值，因为在这些情况下，每个群体对危机根源的理解是不同的。

9408820 Briggs This research by a social anthropologist from Vassar College involves the recording and analysis of narratives by Native Americans about epidemic diseases which recently struck their poor, forest community. There was a devastating cholera epidemic as well as measles and whooping cough epidemics, none of which the Indians recognize as traditional diseases. Their stories represent the diseases as being inflicted by non-Indians in order to weaken their society. By analyzing how these narratives are formed, transmitted, and circulate from Indian to non-Indian contexts, the project will study how the symbolic aspects of diseases are represented. The knowledge to be gained form this research will help government agencies and NGOs communicate with ethnic groups to ameliorate the devastating impact of health crises in this area, and will add to our understanding of how ethnic groups who do not have a bio-medical understanding of diseases form their own cultural models of the diseases and how individuals in the groups use these models for social and political advantage. This sort of knowledge will be valuable for dealing with similar situations of inter-ethnic contact where each group's understanding of the source of the crisis is different.