Dissertation Research: Social Change and Health in a Brazilian Indian Community

LBP：\A9320285 利伯曼 这个项目涉及一个文化人类学研究生 来自佛罗里达大学，学习健康和医学 一小群南美印第安人的习俗。 的 学生将与印第安人生活在三个村庄， 巴西亚马逊评估不同接触的影响， 巴西国家印第安人机构（FUNAI）对他们的健康和 医疗实践。 使用编制个人 病史、饮食分析、人体测量、时间 分配研究和人种学访谈，学生将 评估传统信仰体系的可行性。 这项研究很重要，因为它提供了有关 是世界上仅存的几个觅食群落之一 他们正在迅速改变。 除了对美国的好处。 培养专业人类学家的科学， 关于这个重要领域的知识， 关于医学传统和实践的案例研究将提供 有价值的信息，可用于通知任何政策 这是一个关于这些小的，不完整的群体。 的 研究也有可能发现有价值的 传统的保健做法，可能有益于其他 situations. ***

LBP:\A9320285 Lieberman This project involves a cultural anthropology graduate student from the University of Florida, studying the health and medical practices of a small group of South American Indians. The student will live with the Indians in three hamlets in the Brazilian Amazon to assess the effects of varying contact with the Brazilian National Indian Agency (FUNAI) on their health and medical practices. Using techniques of compiling personal medical histories, dietary analysis, anthropometry, time allocation studies and ethnographic interviews, the student will assess the viability of the traditional belief system. This research is important because it provides information about one of the few remaining communities of foragers in the world, who are changing rapidly. Aside from the benefits to U.S. science of training a professional anthropologist and providing knowledge about this important area of the world, this sort of case study about medical traditions and practices will provide valuable information which can be used to inform policies of any state with respect to such small, unintegrated groups. The research also has the potential of discovering valuable traditional health practices which could be beneficial in other situations. ***