Modernization and its Discontents: Socioeconomic and Biological Influences on Quality of Life

[200767] leonard Godoy， McDade这项由三位人类学家进行的试点研究将研究玻利维亚低地土著居民（提斯曼人）生活方式快速变化的主观和客观生活质量。研究人员将开发和实地测试新的生活质量测量方法，以便最终测试有关经济发展影响的假设。他们打算从样本人群中收集基本信息；收集来自相同人群和社区的重复观察结果，以控制固定属性；并评估与经济成功、营养状况和压力有关的一系列解释变量。这项研究在估计不平等如何影响生活质量方面的理论进展将具有重要意义。它将推动从人们那里获得关于他们主观幸福状态的信息的方法，并在更广泛的方面，将有助于更有见地的讨论和一种新的思考方式，即经济发展、市场经济一体化、贸易开放或全球化在多大程度上伤害或帮助传统人民。

0200767Leonard, Godoy, McDade This pilot research by three anthropologists will study subjective and objective quality-of-life in an indigenous population of lowland Bolivia (the Tsimane') undergoing rapid lifestyle change. The researchers will develop and field-test new measures of quality-of-life in order to ultimately test hypotheses about the effects of economic development. They intend to collect primary information from a sample of people; to collect repeated observations from the same people and communities to control for fixed attributes; and to evaluate a broad range of explanatory variables relating to economic success, nutritional status, and stress. This research will be significant in its theoretical advance in estimating how inequalities affect quality of life. It will advance the methodology of eliciting information from people about their subjective state of happiness, and in its broader aspects, will contribute to a more informed discussion and a new way of thinking about he degree to which economic development, integration to a market economy, trade opening or globalization hurts or helps traditional people.