Ecological Studies of Paraguayan Foragers

该项目涉及继续对生活在巴拉圭的美洲印第安人采集者进行长期生态研究。 来自新墨西哥州大学的两名人类学家和他们的学生将花15个月的时间在野外收集数据，以测试一系列关于群体规模和流动性的假设;婚后居住模式;个人狩猎旅行的频率;以及随着时间的推移离婚率。所产生的数据将促进我们对美洲印第安人生活和适应自然环境的理解，将有助于产生这个社会的全面民族志，并提供了一个重要的比较，以其他几个详细的觅食民族志可用。 这种研究很重要，因为觅食社会正在迅速消失，因此在不久的将来不可能有直接观察的机会。

This project involves the continuation of a long-term ecological study of Amerindian foragers living in Paraguay. Two anthropologists and their students from the University of New Mexico will spend fifteen months in the field collecting data to test a set of hypotheses about group size and mobility; post-marital residence patterns; the frequency of individual hunting trips; and divorce rates over time. The data produced will advance our understanding about Amerindian life and adaptation to the natural environment, will help produce a full-scale ethnography of this society, and provide an important comparison to the few other detailed forager ethnographies that are available. This sort of study is important because foraging societies are disappearing at a rapid rate, so opportunities for direct observation will not be possible in the near future.