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Dissertation Research: Rescuing a Rare Endangered Body of Knowledge: A Field Study of Hoti Ethnobotany

论文研究：拯救稀有濒临灭绝的知识体系：霍蒂民族植物学的实地研究

基本信息

批准号：
9600219
负责人：
Brent Berlin
金额：
$ 0.94万
依托单位：
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
1996
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1996-10-15 至 1997-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9600219&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Dissertation Research Rescuing Rare Endangered

项目摘要

This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of Georgia. The student will study the ethnobotanical knowledge of a forest-dwelling group in the Venezuelan Amazon, and will document the ways the community exploits, cognizes, and constructs symbolic and spiritual meanings for the vegetable resources in their environment. The hypothesis to be tested is that the predominantly foraging communities have a less developed knowledge of their botanical environment than do fully horticultural peoples. The reasons advanced in the literature are that the increased knowledge functions as insurance against crop failure; that more sedentary residence allows greater knowledge; and that human disturbance actually augments local biodiversity. The project will examine these hypotheses through this test case, and the degree of ethnobotanical knowledge of this group will be compared against that of other native Amazonian groups in the literature. This project is important because it will add to our knowledge about the rapidly disappearing tropical forest of this region, as well as advance our understanding of how people construct cultural images and understandings of the natural world. In addition it will add understanding of this important region of the world to our nation's knowledge base.

该项目涉及一位来自格鲁吉亚大学人类学学生的论文研究。学生将学习委内瑞拉亚马逊森林居住群体的民族植物学知识，并记录社区利用，认知和构建其环境中蔬菜资源的象征和精神意义的方式。有待检验的假设是，主要是觅食社区有一个较不发达的知识，他们的植物环境比完全园艺的人。文献中提出的理由是，知识的增加起到了防止作物歉收的保险作用;更多的定居点可以提供更多的知识;人类干扰实际上增加了当地的生物多样性。该项目将通过这一测试案例来检验这些假设，并将这一群体的民族植物学知识程度与文献中的其他亚马逊土著群体进行比较。这个项目很重要，因为它将增加我们对该地区迅速消失的热带森林的了解，并促进我们对人们如何构建文化形象和理解自然世界的理解。此外，它将增加对世界这一重要地区的了解，以我们国家的知识基础。