Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Ethnobotanical Knowledge Acquisition Among Tsimane Children

博士论文改进补助金：Tsimane儿童的民族植物学知识获取

• 批准号: 0720098
• 负责人: Brent Berlin
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2008-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0720098&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Ethnobotanical

Ethnobotanical knowledge of indigenous people is fast disappearing. Therefore, it is important to document this information before it is lost to science. Such research helps to ensure that information about plant usefulness is recordetd. It also helps us to understand how knowledge more generally is learned and transmitted over generations. Graduate student Maria-Ruth Martinez, supervised by Dr. Brent Berlin, will undertake research on the ethnobotanical knowledge of the Tsimane, a relatively isolated indigenous people who live in lowland Amazonia Bolivia.Martinez will study the knowledge of children, a population often overlooked in ethnobotanical studies. About 200 children (ages 7-15) and their parents will be asked to participate so that she can investigate the theoretical and practical ethnobotanical knowledge of Tsimane children, their social and experiential contexts for learning, and their specific acquisition patterns. The research will use a mixed-methods approach, including participant observation, free-listing, semi-structured interviews, ethnobotanical collections, ethnobotanical knowledge tests, and time allocation scans. Hypotheses to be tested are: H1: A child''s ethnobotanical knowledge will bear a positive association with the ethnobotanical knowledge of the same sex parent; H2: A child''s ethnobotanical knowledge will bear a positive association with the ethnobotanical knowledge of his/her siblings; H3: The amount of time a child spends with his/her same sex parent and siblings will be positively associated with the child''s ethnobotanical knowledge; H4: There will be a positive interaction effect on a child''s ethnobotanical knowledge between parental and siblings ethnobotanical knowledge (H1-H2) and time spent with these figures (H3); H5: The relative amount of time a child spends interacting with nature will be positively associated with the child''s ethnobotanical knowledge; and, H6: There is a pattern to which plant knowledge is acquired during childhood. This research is important because it will contribute to understanding how children learn, it will document endangered ethnobotanical knowledge, it will help to develop better strategies for conserving ethnobotanical knowledge, and it will contribute to the education of a female social scientist from an under represented group.

土著人民的民族植物学知识正在迅速消失。因此，在这些信息被科学迷失之前将其记录下来非常重要。此类研究有助于确保记录有关植物用途的信息。它还帮助我们了解知识是如何更普遍地学习和代代相传的。研究生玛丽亚-露丝·马丁内斯（Maria-Ruth Martinez）在布伦特·柏林（Brent Berlin）博士的指导下，将研究提斯曼人（Tsimane）的民族植物学知识。提斯曼人是生活在玻利维亚亚马逊流域低地的一个相对孤立的土著民族。马丁内斯将研究儿童的知识，这一群体在民族植物学研究中经常被忽视。大约 200 名儿童（7-15 岁）及其家长将被要求参与，以便她能够调查 Tsimane 儿童的理论和实践民族植物学知识、他们的学习社会和体验背景以及他们的具体习得模式。该研究将采用混合方法，包括参与观察、自由列表、半结构化访谈、民族植物学收藏、民族植物学知识测试和时间分配扫描。待检验的假设为： H1：孩子的民族植物学知识与同性父母的民族植物学知识呈正相关； H2：孩子的民族植物学知识与其兄弟姐妹的民族植物学知识呈正相关； H3：孩子与同性父母和兄弟姐妹相处的时间与孩子的民族植物学知识呈正相关； H4：父母和兄弟姐妹的民族植物学知识（H1-H2）和与这些人物相处的时间（H3）对孩子的民族植物学知识存在正向交互作用； H5：孩子与自然互动的相对时间与孩子的民族植物学知识呈正相关； H6：童年时期获得植物知识存在一种模式。这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于了解儿童如何学习，将记录濒临灭绝的民族植物学知识，将有助于制定更好的保护民族植物学知识的策略，并将有助于对来自代表性不足群体的女性社会科学家的教育。