Doctoral Dissertation Research: Reconfiguring Local Knowledge of Remedies: Hybridity at the Interface of Production and Consumption

博士论文研究：重新配置当地的补救措施知识：生产和消费界面的混合性

• 批准号: 1224632
• 负责人: Kathleen DeWalt
• 金额: $ 1.26万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1224632&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Reconfiguring; Local

University of Pittsburgh doctoral student, Nora C. Bridges, supervised by Dr. Kathleen M. DeWalt, will undertake 12 months of field research on how indigenous people inform and build local knowledge of health remedies in a context of increasing engagement with diverse outsiders. She will investigate whether and to what degree local knowledge is a resource through which, 1) health is maintained, 2) indigenous identity is asserted, and 3) sociality is supported. It is hypothesized that agility in local knowledge repertoires provides successful livelihood strategies. This research seeks to examine the simultaneous roles of innovative production and strategic consumption in the provision of scarce medical resources in increasingly pluralistic settings. The research will be carried out among Indigenous Amazonians in the Upper Napo of Ecuador. The researcher will document shifts in local knowledge of remedies shifts across rapidly changing environmental and socioeconomic contexts. Data collection methods will include structured surveys, formal elicitation techniques, participatory mapping, home garden inventories, in-depth semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and document collection. This research will contribute to theories of local knowledge production in contexts where indigenous curing repertoires co-exist with market penetration and altered environments. In addition to theoretical development, this research is intended to help devise a more sophisticated and nuanced framework to better describe how health decisions are made and scarce resources are allocated in order to enhance human health programs, generate recommendations for sustainable livelihoods, and fortify cultural and biological diversity. Funding this research also supports the education of a graduate student.

匹兹堡大学博士生诺拉·C·布里奇斯在凯瑟琳·M·德沃特博士的指导下，将进行为期12个月的实地研究，研究土著人民如何在与不同的外来者接触日益增多的情况下，向当地人民通报和积累有关保健药物的知识。她将调查当地知识是否是一种资源，以及在多大程度上是一种资源，通过这种资源，1)保持健康，2)主张土著身份，3)支持社会性。假设地方知识体系的敏捷性提供了成功的谋生战略。这项研究试图考察在日益多元化的环境中，创新生产和战略消费在提供稀缺医疗资源方面的同时作用。这项研究将在厄瓜多尔上纳波的土著亚马逊人中进行。这位研究人员将记录在快速变化的环境和社会经济背景下，当地对补救措施知识的转变。数据收集方法将包括结构化调查、正式启发技术、参与性绘图、家庭花园清单、深入的半结构化访谈、参与者观察和文件收集。这项研究将有助于在本土固化剧目与市场渗透和改变的环境共存的背景下的地方知识生产理论。除了理论发展，这项研究还旨在帮助设计一个更复杂、更细微的框架，以更好地描述卫生决策是如何做出的，以及稀缺资源是如何分配的，以加强人类健康计划，产生可持续生计的建议，并加强文化和生物多样性。资助这项研究还支持研究生的教育。