Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Emergence of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Cognition, Interpretation, Perception and Social Labor in an Indonesian Society

博士论文研究：土著环境知识的出现：印度尼西亚社会的认知、解释、感知和社会劳动

• 批准号: 1060427
• 负责人: John Lansing
• 金额: $ 1.78万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-02-15 至 2013-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1060427&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Emergence; Indigenous

Doctoral student Yancey Orr (University of Arizona), under the supervision of Dr. J. Stephen Lansing, will research how differences in environmental knowledge emerge within highland Balinese communities in Indonesia. This research will focus on multiple levels of how people relate to and interact with their environment and in so doing address basic anthropological questions about the generation of knowledge from experience. Research will address topics such as how individuals understand ecological interactions, interpret the behavior of animals and visually perceive landscapes. The researcher will use data collected from cognitive science experiments and interviews conducted among wet rice agriculturalists and craft producers. This information will be used to see how directly experiencing the environment through labor and observation affects knowledge and skill.This research is important because it is a departure from existing studies of environmental knowledge which have typically focused on classification schemes which take linguistic groups as the unit of analysis. Instead, the proposed research is aimed at uncovering the difference in environmental knowledge within communities and how people come to have such knowledge. The research will contribute to cognitive science research on mental models and their development. Beyond addressing questions within anthropology, this research has practical application for Bali as its highlands, once the agricultural center of the island, have, in many areas, been transformed by craft production into servicing tourists. The effect that this change in the labor landscape has on Balinese knowledge of the environment is a component of this study.

博士生Yancey Orr（亚利桑那大学）将在J. Stephen Lansing博士的指导下，研究印度尼西亚巴厘岛高地社区中环境知识的差异是如何出现的。这项研究将集中在人们如何与环境联系和互动的多个层面上，并以此解决有关从经验中产生知识的基本人类学问题。研究将涉及个人如何理解生态相互作用，解释动物行为和视觉感知景观等主题。研究人员将使用从认知科学实验中收集的数据，并对湿稻农家和工艺生产者进行访谈。这些信息将用于了解通过劳动和观察直接体验环境如何影响知识和技能。这项研究很重要，因为它偏离了现有的环境知识研究，这些研究通常集中在以语言群体为分析单位的分类方案上。相反，拟议的研究旨在揭示社区内环境知识的差异，以及人们如何获得这些知识。该研究将有助于认知科学对心智模型及其发展的研究。除了解决人类学中的问题，这项研究对巴厘岛有实际的应用，因为它的高地，曾经是岛上的农业中心，在许多地区，被手工生产转变为为游客服务。劳动力格局的这种变化对巴厘岛人对环境的认识的影响是本研究的一个组成部分。