SGER: How is Local Ecological Knowledge Transmitted? Exploratory Research Among the Soligas of India

研究人员记录了当地生态知识的普遍性及其在无法获得现代农业技术或医学的社会中的益处。 研究人员还记录了全球范围内当地生态知识的消失。 如果当地的生态知识提供了如此多的好处，为什么它会消失呢？ 为了回答这个问题，我们建议对印度西南部的一个部落索利加进行一项研究。 索利加仍然依赖当地的生态知识生存。 我们假设，在生活中从当地生态知识中受益更多的父母将投入更多的资源向孩子传授当地生态知识，而从学校教育中受益更多的父母将在当地生态知识和提高入学率方面投入更少。 该研究将以当地生态知识作为案例研究，提出并检验有关文化传播的假设，并对索利加传播当地知识的路径进行定量分析。 该研究还将为博士提供实践培训和指导研究经验。文化人类学学生。

Researchers have documented the ubiquity of local ecological knowledge and its benefits in societies without access to modern agricultural technologies or medicine. Researchers have also documented the world-wide disappearance of local ecological knowledge. If local ecological knowledge provides so many benefits, why would it disappear? To answer the question we propose to conduct a study among the Soliga, a tribal group in southwest India. Soliga still depend on local ecological knowledge for their survival. We hypothesize that parents who through their live have benefited more from local ecological knowledge will invest more resources in teaching local ecological knowledge to their children, whereas parents who have benefited more from schooling, will invest less in local ecological knowledge and promote school attendance. The research will develop and test hypotheses about the transmission of culture using local ecological knowledge as a case study and conduct a quantitative analysis of the paths through which the Soliga transmit local knowledge. The research also will provide hands-on training and mentoring research experience for a Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology.