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

研究生Sarah Hitchner在J.Peter Brosius博士的指导下，将在婆罗洲岛上马来西亚沙捞越的Kelabit高地进行研究。在人工景观历史生态学和保护政治生态学的最新进展的基础上，她的论文研究将专注于记录克拉比特高地的土地利用历史，特别是目前的巴伦甘村周围。她创作这部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)在国家主导的将影响克拉比特人的保护倡议的背景下，促进参与式人类学研究方法的多层次合作方法。她将运用一系列互补的人种学方法，包括档案研究、参与者观察、包括口述历史收集和素描绘制在内的访谈，以及对过去定居点遗址的有导游的参观。她将把这些编码化的人种学和生态数据纳入地理信息系统数据库，该数据库还将包括来自现有地图、卫星图像和航空照片的地物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空间和时间分析，这些数据将被合作收集，然后最终由克拉比特人管理，以保护他们的文化遗址和资源区，包括拟议的新创建的普龙头国家公园扩建范围内外的文化遗址和资源区。这篇论文项目的跨学科和协作方法，试图分析协作地图制作的过程，而不仅仅是制作地图和数据库，可以在超越民族志的研究项目中复制。

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.