Dissertation Research: Ethnobotanical Knowledge Variation in Missouri's Little Dixie

论文研究：密苏里州小迪克西的民族植物学知识变异

• 批准号: 9903983
• 负责人: Deborah Pearsall
• 金额: $ 0.61万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-07-01 至 2000-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9903983&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Ethnobotanical; Knowledge; Variation

9903983Pearsall / Nolan This project supports the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of Missouri, studying how ecological, socio-demographic and cultural factors affect the acquisition and organization of ethnobotanical knowledge in central Missouri. How people know what they know about plant resources and how plant knowledge is organized will be studied by interviewing twenty local plant experts and twenty non-experts in "Little Dixie", a well-defined cultural region of central Missouri. Various cognitive procedures will be used to distinguish experts from non-experts. By examining the ethnobotany of this region through cultural and ethno-ecological techniques, the student will discover how and why plant knowledge varies among individuals and how the factors associated with ethnobotanical knowledge affect patterns of plant use and classification. The research promises to safeguard a valuable body of ethnobotanical information from a little-studied U.S. vernacular region. In addition the project supports the training of a young social scientist.

9903983 Pearsall/ Nolan该项目支持密苏里州大学人类学学生的论文研究，研究生态，社会人口和文化因素如何影响密苏里州中部民族植物学知识的获取和组织。 人们如何知道他们所知道的植物资源和植物知识是如何组织的，将通过采访20个当地的植物专家和20个非专家在“小迪克西”，一个明确的文化区域的密苏里州中部进行研究。将使用各种认知程序来区分专家和非专家。 通过文化和民族生态技术研究该地区的民族植物学，学生将发现植物知识如何以及为什么个体之间存在差异，以及与民族植物学知识相关的因素如何影响植物使用和分类的模式。 这项研究有望保护一个很少研究的美国本土地区的民族植物学信息的宝贵机构。此外，该项目还支持培训一名青年社会科学家。