International Postdoctoral Fellows Program: Cultural Change in Western Hunan, China

9505686布朗国际初级研究员和博士后研究员计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。该项目的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，并提供了使用国外独特或互补的设施、专业知识和实验条件的机会。这一奖项将支持梅丽莎·J·布朗博士为期12个月的博士后访问，与中华人民共和国中南民族学院中国教授罗栋合作。在这一奖项期间，国际民族社将与武汉中南民族学院(中南民族学院)的学者合作，在湖南省西部丰盐县就国家指定的少数民族土家族的文化变迁进行民族志田野调查。人们对中央中国知之甚少，因为没有西方人类学家在那里工作过，而在那里的中国学者也没有人联系，也没有资金将他们的研究成果传播到中国之外。因此，土家族的历史经验将为考察与当地结构相关的文化变化提供一种手段，因为他们首先向汉族文化模式转变，然后又从汉族文化模式转变。***

9505686 Brown The International Junior Investigator and Postdoctoral Fellows Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twelve-month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Melissa J. Brown to work with Professor Dong Luo of South-Central Nationalities College in the People's Republic of China. During this award, the PI will do ethnographic fieldwork on cultural change among the Tujia, a state-designated ethnic minority, in Fengyan Xian in western Hunan Province with the collaboration of scholars at the Zhongnan Minzu Xueyuan (South-Central Nationalities College), or Min Yuan, in Wuhan. Little is known about Central China since no western anthropologists have worked there and the Chinese scholars located there have had neither contacts or funds to disseminate the results of their research outside China. Therefore the historical experience of the Tujia will provide a means for examining cultural change in relation to local structure since they changed first toward and then away from a Han Chinese cultural model. ***