Growth, Development, Aging, and Sociality Among the Tsimane of Bolivia

0136274卡普兰这个为期三年的研究项目研究人们如何从青年发展到老年人在传统的觅食和简单的园艺社会的齐马内，在玻利维亚。调查人员将测试对死亡率、发病率、功能状态、技能、力量和耐力的年龄特异性模式的预测，重点是衰老过程和老年人;将测试关于社会技能和社会资本的实现以及身体生长和力量对成熟和生殖的限制的假设;并研究个人生活史特征与家庭内部和家庭之间资源流动模式之间的关系。 研究人员包括来自新墨西哥州大学和加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的两名高级文化人类学家和五名研究生和本科生。研究样本将包括10个Tsimane村庄，人口约1 000人。 从较大的样本中，将选择三个总人口约250人的村庄作为重点行为研究和监测的核心样本。将记录死亡率、发病率、人体测量学、力量和技能的各种衡量标准，以及时间分配、资源生产和食物分配、育儿技能、社会地位以及人力和社会资本的衡量标准。这个项目的数据将是重要的，有兴趣了解人类生活史的普遍和可变的功能在相对传统的条件下，与那些流行的选择在人类生命过程中演变的漫长历史的学者。

0136274KaplanThis three-year research project studies how people develop from youth to aged in the traditional foraging and simple horticultural society of the Tsimane, in Bolivia. The investigators will test predictions about age-specific patterns of mortality, morbidity, functional status, skill, strength and endurance focusing on the aging process and the elderly; will test hypotheses about the attainments of social skills and social capital as well as physical growth and strength as constraints on maturation and reproduction; and will study the relation between life history characteristics of individuals and the pattern of resource flows within and among families. The researchers include two senior cultural anthropologists and five graduate and undergraduate students from the University of New Mexico and UC-Santa Barbara. The study sample will include ten Tsimane villages with a population of about 1,000 individuals. From the larger sample three villages with a total population of about 250 persons will be selected as a core sample for focused behavioral studies and monitoring. Various measures of mortality, morbidity, anthropometry, strength, and skills will be recorded as well as measures of time allocation, resource production and food distribution, childrearing skills, social status, and human and social capital. The data from this project will be important to a wide range of scholars interested in understanding the universal and variable features of human life histories under relatively traditional conditions, comparable to those prevailing during the long history of selection during which the human life course evolved.