Doctoral Dissertation Research: Linking Land Use History and Conservation in Pulong Tau National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia

研究生莎拉·希切纳（Sarah Hitchner）将在马来西亚婆罗洲岛沙捞越州的克努特高地进行研究，由J. Peter Brosius博士监督。在人类景观的历史生态学和保护的政治生态学的最新进展的基础上，她的论文研究将集中在记录kalcit高地的土地利用历史，特别是在目前的Pa' Lungan村周围。 她在创建这一土地利用历史的两个主要目标是1）推进分析来自不同来源的空间和时间数据的多学科方法，2）促进多层次的合作方法参与人类学研究方法的背景下，国家主导的保护倡议，将影响korhit人。这些目标旨在促进理论人类学辩论围绕当地人民的适当代表性和科学和地方知识的生产。她将应用一系列补充人种学方法，包括档案研究，参与者观察，访谈，包括口述历史收集和草图绘制，并引导访问过去的定居点。她将把这些编纂的人种学和生态学数据纳入一个地理信息系统数据库，该数据库还将包括现有地图、卫星图像和航空照片中的地理特征和区域地理空间数据层的全球定位系统位置;该数据库将允许对从这些不同来源收集的属性表格数据进行交叉检查。这些数据将有助于以数字地图的形式重建土地使用历史，并对过去的土地使用进行时空分析，这些数据将通过合作收集，并最终由克钦族人管理，以保护他们在新建的Pulong Tau国家公园拟议扩建范围内外的文化遗址和资源区。 本论文项目的跨学科和协作方法，旨在分析协作地图制作的过程，而不仅仅是产生一个地图和数据库，可以复制的研究项目，超越民族志。

Graduate student Sarah Hitchner, supervised by Dr. J. Peter Brosius, will undertake research in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Building on recent advances in the historical ecology of anthropogenic landscapes and the political ecology of conservation, her dissertation research will focus on documenting the land use history of the Kelabit Highlands, specifically around the current village of Pa' Lungan. Her two main objectives in creating this land use history are 1) to advance a multidisciplinary methodology of analyzing spatial and temporal data from different sources, and 2) to promote a multi-level collaborative approach to participatory anthropological research methods in the context of a state-led conservation initiative that will affect the Kelabit people. These objectives seek to contribute to theoretical anthropological debates surrounding appropriate representation of local peoples and the production of scientific and local knowledges.She will apply an array of complementary ethnographic methods, including archival research, participant observation, interviews that include oral history collection and sketch mapping, and guided visits to past settlement sites. She will incorporate these codified ethnographic and ecological data into a GIS database that will also include GPS locations of features and layers of regional geospatial data from existing maps, satellite images, and aerial photographs; this database will allow for the cross-checking of attributed tabular data collected from these different sources. These data, which will allow reconstruction of land use history in the form of a digital map and spatial and temporal analyses of past land uses, will be collected collaboratively and then ultimately managed by the Kelabit people for the protection of their cultural sites and resource areas both within and outside of the boundaries of the proposed expansion of the newly-created Pulong Tau National Park. The interdisciplinary and collaborative methods of this dissertation project, which seek to analyze the process of collaborative map-making and not merely to produce a map and database, can be replicated in research projects that extend beyond ethnography.