SGER: Socioecology and Social Structure

斯蒂芬·贝克曼博士将利用这一奖项完成对南美热带森林协会委内瑞拉巴利的人种学研究。这项研究有四个主要的数据差距需要解决：1)所有巴利当地和领地群体的位置和身份；2)巴利与非巴利邻居的关系；3)可分割的父权制度，这是一种非常罕见的亲属制度，其中多个父亲为一个孩子分享父亲身份；以及4)家庭经济和婚姻做法之间的关系。完成对巴利社会的记录很重要，因为仍然可以收集接触前生态和人口信息的群体很少。到目前为止的研究表明，巴利的社会实践在生态上是健全的。例如，可分割的亲子关系显著提高了孩子的存活率。完成对巴利的记录将有助于科学家了解人类社会生态系统的全部范围。这项研究还支持国际科学合作。

Dr. Stephen Beckerman will use this award to complete ethnographic research on a South American tropical forest society, the Barí of Venezuela. There are four major data gaps to be addressed in this research: 1) the locations and identities of all Barí local and territorial groups; 2) Barí relationships with non-Barí neighbors; 3) partible paternity, a very rare kinship system in which multiple fathers share paternal status for a single child; and 4) the relationship between household economy and marriage practices. Completing documentation of Barí society is important because there are very few groups for which pre-contact ecological and demographic information still can be gathered. Research to date has shown that Barí social practices were ecologically sound. For example, partible paternity significantly increases child survivorship. Completing documentation of the Barí will help scientists to understand the full range of human socioecological systems. The research also supports international scientific collaboration.