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。布兰代斯大学的理查德·a·戈多伊（richard A. Godoy）将继续为人类学博士生进行为期四年（2010-2013）的创新和成功的实地方法暑期培训项目。这所实地学校的重点是教授收集社会经济和生物文化数据的方法，在玻利维亚亚马逊低地的土著提斯曼人社区开展。这个强化课程每年夏天每周七天，持续五周。学生必须说流利的西班牙语，并表现出对研究的承诺和科学事业的潜力。他们接受过人种学探测、调查、焦点小组、扫描、堆分类、三合会、实验、人体测量和生物标记等技术方面的培训。该方法的特点包括：(a)引导学生完成研究的大多数阶段，从设计到假设制定，再到试点测试方法，再到数据收集，清理，分析，最后以展示结果结束；(b)由教师提供密切的个人指导；(c)学习在寻求共同关心的问题的答案时进行小组合作；(d)学习野外工作的日常管理。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年以来一直与提斯曼人一起工作。加强高等人类学研究生的方法培养，是培养具有竞争力的新一代社会科学家的重要保证。因为人类学家经常进行实地研究，所以在实际的实地环境中进行的培训是必不可少的，但在以大学为基础的研究生课程中很难做到。因此，这个程序填补了一个关键的需求。它在帮助学生走上成功的职业道路、招募女性和代表性不足群体成员方面也有着良好的记录。

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.