Dissertation Research: Ethnobotanical Knowledge Variation in Missouri's Little Dixie

9903983Pearsall/Nolan该项目支持密苏里大学人类学专业学生的论文研究，研究生态、社会人口和文化因素如何影响密苏里州中部民族植物学知识的获取和组织。人们如何了解他们对植物资源的了解，以及植物知识是如何组织的，将通过采访20名当地植物专家和20名非专家来研究，这是密苏里州中部一个定义明确的文化区。将使用各种认知程序来区分专家和非专家。通过文化和民族生态技术研究该地区的民族植物学，学生将发现植物知识如何以及为什么在个体之间存在差异，以及与民族植物学知识相关的因素如何影响植物的使用和分类模式。这项研究承诺保护一个鲜有研究的美国方言地区的有价值的民族植物学信息。此外，该项目还支持培训一名年轻的社会科学家。

9903983Pearsall / Nolan This project supports the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of Missouri, studying how ecological, socio-demographic and cultural factors affect the acquisition and organization of ethnobotanical knowledge in central Missouri. How people know what they know about plant resources and how plant knowledge is organized will be studied by interviewing twenty local plant experts and twenty non-experts in "Little Dixie", a well-defined cultural region of central Missouri. Various cognitive procedures will be used to distinguish experts from non-experts. By examining the ethnobotany of this region through cultural and ethno-ecological techniques, the student will discover how and why plant knowledge varies among individuals and how the factors associated with ethnobotanical knowledge affect patterns of plant use and classification. The research promises to safeguard a valuable body of ethnobotanical information from a little-studied U.S. vernacular region. In addition the project supports the training of a young social scientist.