Tzotzil Maya Folkbiology: A Cultural Account of Difference

Tzotzil玛雅民间生物学：差异的文化解释

• 批准号: 0412054
• 负责人: Norbert Ross
• 金额: $ 1.11万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-31 至 2004-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0412054&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Tzotzil; Maya; Folkbiology; Cultural; Account

0216762RossThis project studies the interaction between culture, activity-related expertise about the natural world, and the structure, content and intra-community distribution of folk biological knowledge. The study community is the Tzotzil Maya township of Zinacantan, Chiapas, Mexico. The research will explore the effects of the many economic and social changes that have occurred in the community in recent times on the distribution and content of folk biological knowledge. Several sets of formal tasks will be accomplished exploring the content, organization and distribution of knowledge about plants and animals as well as local religious rituals. In addition the PI will engage in ethnographic studies of daily life, informal interviews and surveys. The results will be compared with data from previous studies, to assess the changes (any observed loss of factual knowledge about the environment will be compared to any observed loss of religious knowledge). This research will contribute to our understanding of the nature of cognitive models in human populations, their stability and sources of variability. The wider impacts will include the training of local students in social science research methods.

本项目研究文化、与自然界活动相关的专门知识与民间生物知识的结构、内容和社区内分布之间的相互作用。研究社区是墨西哥恰帕斯州Zinacantan的Tzotzil Maya镇。这项研究将探索近年来社区发生的许多经济和社会变化对民间生物知识的分布和内容的影响。将完成几套正式任务，探索有关动植物以及当地宗教仪式的知识的内容、组织和传播。此外，独立调查团还将参与日常生活的人种学研究、非正式访谈和调查。结果将与以前研究的数据进行比较，以评估变化(任何观察到的环境事实知识的丧失将与任何观察到的宗教知识的丧失进行比较)。这项研究将有助于我们理解人类群体中认知模型的性质、它们的稳定性和变异性的来源。更广泛的影响将包括对当地学生进行社会科学研究方法的培训。