Summer Field Training in Methods to Collect Data

数据收集方法的夏季现场培训

• 批准号: 0609924
• 负责人: Ricardo Godoy
• 金额: $ 16.26万
• 依托单位: Brandeis University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0609924&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Summer; Field; Training; Methods; Collect

This grant supports a summer fieldwork training program for doctoral students in cultural anthropology. It continues and expands a program supported by a previous NSF grant (BCS-0353137). Training takes place in Bolivia, in two villages of the Tsimane people, a native Amazonian group, where there has been ongoing research since 1999. Faculty, all of whom donate their time, include six cultural and three biological anthropologists. Students are moved through all stages of research (design, hypotheses formulation, analysis, presentation). They are exposed to interdisciplinary research in progress; provided with tools for conducting successful collaborative research; taught to adapt and apply formal methods of data collection in the field; and provided with a stimulating, supportive atmosphere where they experience the realities of fieldwork while exploring their own research interests. Students are taught to collect data in ecology, demography, experimental and household economics, cognitive anthropology, folk knowledge, natural resource use and health. Procedures for validating data and achieving inter-observer reliability across sites will be taught as well as how to deal with missing data; how to code, store and clean data in the field; how to explain human subject protection protocols to research participants; how to do preliminary data analysis and write up, how to deal with logistical and ethical problems that arise in the field situation; and how to give something back and explain research findings to the host community before leaving the research site. With this award, the PIs, who include two Hispanic researchers, also are committed to trying to broaden participation in science by actively recruiting minority students.

这笔资助用于文化人类学博士生的暑期田野培训项目。它继续并扩大了一项由之前的国家科学基金会拨款(BCS-0353137)支持的计划。培训在玻利维亚的两个村庄Tsimane人进行，Tsimane人是亚马逊的一个土著群体，自1999年以来一直在那里进行研究。所有捐献时间的教职员工包括6名文化人类学家和3名生物人类学家。学生将经历研究的所有阶段(设计、假设制定、分析、陈述)。他们接触到正在进行的跨学科研究；获得进行成功合作研究的工具；学习适应和应用实地数据收集的正式方法；并提供一种激励和支持的氛围，让他们在探索自己的研究兴趣的同时体验实地工作的现实。教授学生收集生态学、人口学、实验和家庭经济学、认知人类学、民间知识、自然资源利用和健康方面的数据。将教授验证数据和实现跨站点观察者间可靠性的程序以及如何处理丢失的数据；如何对现场数据进行编码、存储和清理；如何向研究参与者解释人类主体保护协议；如何进行初步数据分析和撰写；如何处理现场情况中出现的后勤和道德问题；以及如何在离开研究现场之前向东道国社区回馈一些东西并解释研究结果。有了这个奖项，包括两名拉美裔研究人员在内的私人投资机构也致力于通过积极招募少数族裔学生来扩大对科学的参与。