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（Nora C.她将调查当地知识是否以及在何种程度上是一种资源，其中1）维持健康，2）主张土著身份，3）支持社会性。 假设当地知识库中的敏捷性提供了成功的生计策略。 这项研究旨在研究创新生产和战略消费在越来越多的多元化环境中提供稀缺的医疗资源中的同时作用。 这项研究将在厄瓜多尔上纳波的土著亚马逊人中进行。研究人员将记录在迅速变化的环境和社会经济环境中的疗法的当地知识中的转变。 数据收集方法将包括结构化调查，正式启发技术，参与式映射，家庭花园清单，深入的半结构化访谈，参与者观察和文档收集。 这项研究将在本地固化曲目与市场渗透和环境改变的环境中有助于当地知识生产的理论。 除了理论发展外，这项研究旨在帮助设计一个更复杂和细微的框架，以更好地描述如何制定健康决策和稀缺资源，以增强人类健康计划，为可持续生计提出建议，并强化文化和生物学多样性。 资助这项研究还支持研究生的教育。