Doctoral Dissertation Research: Indigenous Conceptions of Government and Relations with the Nation-State

博士论文研究：土著政府观念及其与民族国家的关系

• 批准号: 1260455
• 负责人: George Mentore
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-15 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1260455&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Indigenous; Conceptions

University of Virginia doctoral candidate Lucas de Carvalho, under the direction of Dr. George Mentore, will undertake research on Amerindian-state relations. In many parts of the world, there have been longstanding conflicts between governments and indigenous people. This research will explore how these misunderstandings emerge through a divergence between government practices and indigenous religious and cultural beliefs. The researcher will conduct ethnographic data collection on an indigenous group of people who live in the Amazonian rainforest in Guyana. He seeks to understand the models used to conceptualize the government and their role in social and political life.The research has the potential to transform the way that anthropologists and other social scientists have theorized the nation-state and governance. The researcher's existing relationship to this indigenous group enables him to engage in innovative methods of data collection such as highly immersive participant observation that afford him to access information that has eluded previous anthropological inquiry. More broadly, the research will improve anthropological understandings of social and political organization and the role of religion in social life. The project will have broader social impacts by providing both indigenous peoples and government officials with useful models for understanding the cross-cultural dissidence and political conflict. The research will also influence development practice, particularly in the context of health initiatives. Finally, the research would also broaden the participation of an under-represented group.

弗吉尼亚大学博士候选人卢卡斯·德·卡瓦略将在乔治·门托雷博士的指导下从事美洲印第安人与国家关系的研究。在世界许多地方，政府与土著人民之间存在长期冲突。这项研究将探讨这些误解是如何通过政府做法与土著宗教和文化信仰之间的分歧而出现的。研究人员将对生活在圭亚那亚马逊雨林的一个土著群体进行人种学数据收集。他试图理解用于概念化政府的模型及其在社会和政治生活中的作用。这项研究有可能改变人类学家和其他社会科学家对民族国家和治理进行理论化的方式。研究人员与这一土著群体的现有关系使他能够采用创新的数据收集方法，例如高度沉浸式的参与观察，使他能够获得以前人类学调查所无法获得的信息。更广泛地说，这项研究将提高人类学对社会和政治组织以及宗教在社会生活中的作用的理解。该项目将产生更广泛的社会影响，为土著人民和政府官员提供了解跨文化不同政见和政治冲突的有用模式。这项研究还将影响发展实践，特别是在卫生举措方面。最后，研究还将扩大代表性不足群体的参与。