Summer Field Training in Methods of Data Collection, 2010-2013

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助的。布兰迪斯大学的Ricard A.Godoy将继续为人类学博士生提供创新和成功的野外方法暑期培训计划，为期四年(2010-2013)。实地学校的重点是收集社会经济和生物文化数据的教学方法，在玻利维亚亚马孙低地的当地齐马尼人社区进行。这项强化计划每年夏天都会持续五周，每周七天。学生必须精通西班牙语，并表现出对研究的承诺和对科学职业的潜力。他们接受了人种学探测、调查、焦点小组、扫描、堆积分类、三合会、实验、人体测量和生物标记技术方面的培训。这种方法的特点包括：(A)引导学生完成研究的大多数阶段，从设计、假设制定到试点测试方法，再到数据收集、清理、分析，最后提交结果；(B)由教员进行密切的个人指导；(C)在他们寻求共同感兴趣的问题的答案时学会分组工作；以及(D)学习实地工作的日常管理。核心教员包括三名文化人类学家和两名生物人类学家，他们中的大多数人自1999年以来一直与齐曼一起工作。加强对高级人类学研究生的方法培训，是培养有竞争力的新一代社会科学家的重要保证。由于人类学家经常进行田野研究，因此在现实的田野环境中进行的培训是必要的，但在大学研究生课程中很难做到。因此，这一计划满足了一个关键需求。它也有良好的记录，从成功的职业生涯中开始学生，并招募妇女和代表不足的群体的成员。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Dr. Ricard A. Godoy, Brandeis University, will continue for four more years (2010-2013) an innovative and successful summer training program in field methods for anthropology doctoral students. The field school, which focuses on teaching methods to collect socioeconomic and bio-cultural data, is conducted in communities of the native Tsimane people in lowland Amazonia Boliva. The intensive program is run seven days a week for five weeks each summer. Students must be fluent in Spanish and show commitment to research and potential for scientific careers. They are trained in techniques of ethnographic probing, surveys, focus groups, scans, pile sorts, triads, experiments, anthropometric measures, and bio-markers. Hallmarks of the approach include: (a) moving students through most stages of research, from design, to hypotheses formulation, to pilot-testing methods, to data collection, cleaning, analysis, ending with presentation of results; (b) close, personal mentoring by faculty; (c) learning to work in groups as they pursue answers to questions of common interest; and (d) learning about the daily management of fieldwork. The core faculty comprise three cultural and two biological anthropologists, most of whom who have worked together with the Tsimane since 1999. Strengthening methods training for advanced anthropology graduate students is important to assuring new generations of competitive social scientists. Because anthropologists routinely conduct field research, training that is actually conducted in realistic field settings is essential, but difficult to do in university-based graduate programs. Thus this program fills a critical need. It also has a strong record of starting students on successful careers and of recruiting women and members of underrepresented groups.