Nutritional Ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico

墨西哥恰帕斯高地玛雅人的营养民族生物学

• 批准号: 9605847
• 负责人: Elois Ann Berlin
• 金额: $ 9.5万
• 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: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-06-01 至 1998-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9605847&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Nutritional; Ethnobiology; Highland; Maya; Chiapas

This project involves the ethnographic field research of two senior and one junior cultural anthropologists from the University of Georgia. The project proposed to document the complete inventory of edible resources of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico, and to analyze the contribution of these resources to the Maya diet. It is well known that rural peoples exploit food sources that are not well recognized by non-locals, yet which can be important supplements in a dietary sense. Using standard methods of ethnographic interviews, formal data elicitation techniques, dietary recall and garden surveys, the use of local experts to collect food resources and document them, as well as formal interviews of a sample of 50 men and 50 women in each of two Mayan townships, the available food resources will be described and analyzed for their impact on the diet. This research is important because population pressure and deteriorating economic conditions have impacted negatively on rural diets in many areas of the world. This project will attempt to describe the complete range of local resources available in diets, and will stimulate new research into viable alternative diets which can help improve the long-term well being of this and comparable rural populations. In addition, the demonstration that little known edible resources are important food sources can advance our understanding of their place in the ecosystem and encourage their conservation and sustainable use.

该项目涉及来自格鲁吉亚大学的两名高级和一名初级文化人类学家的民族志实地研究。 该项目拟记录墨西哥恰帕斯高地玛雅人可食用资源的完整清单，并分析这些资源对玛雅饮食的贡献。 众所周知，农村人口利用的食物来源不为非当地人所熟知，但在饮食意义上可以作为重要的补充。 使用民族志访谈的标准方法，正式的数据收集技术，饮食回忆和花园调查，利用当地专家收集食物资源和文件，以及在两个玛雅城镇的50名男子和50名妇女的样本的正式访谈，现有的食物资源将被描述和分析其对饮食的影响。 这项研究很重要，因为人口压力和日益恶化的经济状况对世界许多地区的农村饮食产生了负面影响。 该项目将试图描述当地饮食资源的全部范围，并将促进对可行的替代饮食的新研究，这有助于改善这一群体和可比农村人口的长期福祉。 此外，证明鲜为人知的可食用资源是重要的食物来源，可以促进我们对它们在生态系统中的地位的理解，并鼓励它们的保护和可持续利用。