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

小行星9505686 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。该计划的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，以及使用国外独特或互补的设施，专业知识和实验条件。 该奖项将支持Melissa J. Brown博士与中华人民共和国中南民族学院的罗东教授进行为期12个月的博士后研究访问。 在此期间，PI将与武汉中南民族学院的学者合作，对湖南省西部凤峰县土家族（国家指定的少数民族）的文化变迁进行民族志田野调查。由于没有西方人类学家在那里工作过，中国学者在那里既没有联系也没有资金将他们的研究成果传播到中国以外，因此对华中地区的了解很少。 因此，土家族的历史经验将提供一种方法，来考察与地方结构有关的文化变迁，因为他们首先朝着汉族文化模式转变，然后又远离了汉族文化模式。***

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. ***