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。戈多伊，布兰代斯大学，将继续四年（2010-2013年）在人类学博士生的实地方法创新和成功的夏季培训计划。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，在低地亚马逊Boliva的Tsimane土著社区开办。该强化课程每年夏天每周七天，为期五周。学生必须精通西班牙语，并表现出对研究的承诺和科学事业的潜力。他们接受民族志探测、调查、焦点小组、扫描、桩排序、三合会、实验、人体测量和生物标记技术的培训。该方法的特点包括：（a）引导学生完成研究的大部分阶段，从设计到提出假设，到试点测试方法，再到数据收集、清理、分析，最后提出结果;（B）由教师进行密切的个人指导;（c）在寻求共同感兴趣的问题的答案时学会小组工作;（d）学习实地工作的日常管理。核心教师包括三名文化人类学家和两名生物人类学家，其中大多数人自1999年以来一直与Tsimane合作。 加强高等人类学研究生的方法培养，是培养具有竞争力的社会科学人才的重要保证。由于人类学家经常进行实地研究，在现实的实地环境中进行的培训是必不可少的，但在大学的研究生课程中很难做到。因此，该计划满足了一个关键的需求。它也有一个良好的记录，开始学生的成功职业生涯和招聘妇女和代表性不足的群体的成员。

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.