Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution

该奖项支持史密森学会博物馆人类学暑期研究所的建立，提供为期四周的强化课程，培训人类学研究生在研究中使用博物馆物品。学生将学习根据人类学目前的研究议程，使用一系列定性和定量的方法和方法在过去二十五年中开发的分析博物馆收藏品。培训将利用史密森学会的大量人类学收藏和相关资源，让学生在个人项目中与博物馆标本一起工作的实践经验。该研究所将侧重于体验式学习，将实地学校的要素与课堂/实验室培训相结合，史密森尼和其他博物馆的人类学收藏是一项巨大的国家遗产，经过几代人的积累，记录了世界文化，为人类学研究服务。然而，许多潜在的研究人员并没有有效地利用博物馆藏品，因为他们不知道如何处理或评估这类数据，这带来了独特的挑战。该研究所将在三年的赠款课程中培训36名研究生，从而改进博物馆收藏研究的研究设计和方法，并增加有效利用博物馆物品的论文和出版物。通过课程材料的开发和共享，它将作为一个模式，鼓励更广泛的博物馆人类学研究方法的教学和在大学博物馆开发类似的项目。该计划更广泛的目标是更有效地利用博物馆作为知识生产的场所。增加对收藏品的生产性利用将使人类学能够利用前几代人的投资，并从事对这些材料的起源社区有兴趣和价值的研究。

This award supports the establishment of the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution to provide an intensive four-week program to train anthropology graduate students to use museum objects in their research. Students will learn to analyze museum collections in light of anthropology's current research agendas, using a range of qualitative and quantitative methods and approaches developed over the past twenty-five years. The training will take advantage of the Smithsonian Institution's vast anthropology collections and related resources, allowing students a hands-on experience working with museum specimens on individual projects. The Institute will focus on experiential learning, combining elements of a field school with classroom/laboratory training.Anthropology collections at the Smithsonian and other museums represent an enormous national legacy, assembled over generations to document world cultures and serve anthropological research. However, many potential researchers are not effectively utilizing museum collections because they do not know how to approach or evaluate this type of data, which presents distinct challenges. The Institute will train 36 graduate students over the three year course of the grant, leading to better research design and methodology in research on museum collections and an increase in theses and publications effectively utilizing museum objects. Through development and sharing of curriculum materials, it will serve as a model to encourage wider teaching of museum anthropology research methods and development of similar programs at university museums. The broader goal of the program is to use museums more effectively as sites for the production of knowledge. Increased productive use of collections will allow anthropology to capitalize on the investment made by former generations, as well as engage in research of interest and value to the communities where this material originated.