Longitundinal Study of Health and Lifestyle Change in Lowland Bolivia

威廉·R·伦纳德博士(西北大学)和里卡多·A·戈多伊博士(布兰迪斯大学)将建立文化人类学的第一批小组研究之一。小组或纵向研究涉及对个人或家庭随时间的重复观察。尽管小组研究在其他科学分支中越来越受欢迎，但人类学尚未接受这种方法来研究生物行为随时间变化的模式。拟议的工作旨在通过继续研究小组关于玻利维亚亚马逊土著社会Tsimane‘生活方式和健康变化的长期实地项目来弥补这一差距。自2002年以来，Tsimane的亚马逊小组研究每年从玻利维亚贝尼省13个村庄的252户家庭(1577人)样本中收集社会经济和健康数据。这项研究为生活方式现代化和更多地接触市场经济提供了重要的见解，这些因素包括：(1)传统生态知识的丧失/保存；(2)资源利用和食物消耗；(3)儿童健康和营养状况；(4)成人慢性病和传染病风险。研究小组将继续对所有252个家庭的家庭社会经济状况和资源使用、儿童生长和健康状况以及成年健康状况进行年度测量。此外，他们将继续使用他们的研究网站为人类学博士生进行暑期方法培训。此外，目前的资金将使研究小组能够合并和协调他们所有的小组数据集，并在网上向其他研究人员公开。随着这些人在市场经济中获得更大的曝光率，通过跟踪这些人一段时间的时间，TAP将允许学者探索随着传统社会的衰落，他们未来将无法直接研究的主题。公开提供带有明确文件的小组数据集，应有助于就全球化和市场敞口对福祉的影响展开更广泛的辩论。

Dr. William R. Leonard (Northwestern University) and Dr. Ricardo A. Godoy (Brandeis University) are going to establish one of the first panel studies in cultural anthropology. Panel or longitudinal studies involve repeated observations of individuals or households over time. Despite the growing popularity of panel studies in other branches of science, anthropology has yet to embrace this approach for studying patterns of bio-behavioral change over time. The proposed work aims to address this gap by continuing the research team's long-term field project on changes in lifestyle and health among the Tsimane', a native Amazonian society in Bolivia. Since 2002 the Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS) has collected socioeconomic and health data every year from a sample of 252 households (1577 individuals) from 13 villages situated in the Beni Department of Bolivia. This research is providing important insights into how lifestyle modernization and greater exposure to the market economy among the Tsimane' are influencing such factors as: (1) the loss/preservation of traditional ecological knowledge, (2) resource use and food consumption, (3) child health and nutritional status, and (4) adult chronic and infectious disease risks. The research team will continue to do annual measurements of household socioeconomic status and resource use, childhood growth and health status, and adult heath in all 252 of our panel households. Additionally, they will continue to use their research site for summer methods training for Ph.D. students in anthropology. Furthermore, the current funding will allow the research team to consolidate and harmonize all of their panel data set and make it publicly available on the web to other researchers. By tracking the same people over time as they gain greater exposure to the market economy, TAPS will allow scholars to explore topics that they will be unable to study directly in the future with the waning of traditional societies. Making the panel data sets publicly available with clear documentation should contribute to a wider debate about the effects of globalization and market exposure on well-being.