Pilot Study of Foraging In Tanzania

9976681Marlowe这个项目调查了坦桑尼亚森林民族的觅食程度，对他们知之甚少。 要研究的群体是西部哈扎人，他们生活在一个偏远地区，与中央政府没有太多联系，也没有受到影响东部哈扎人的旅游影响。 一旦狩猎和采集被放弃，人们可以继续研究觅食者的心理，只要被研究的人曾经觅食并保持相同的态度，信仰和偏好。 通过研究活跃的觅食者，研究人员，一位来自哈佛大学的文化人类学家，可以使用定量观察方法来了解关于狩猎和采集生态位的事情，这是无法通过其他方式了解的。 他将进行整天和半天的重点如下男子狩猎，记录猎物的遭遇和捕获率。 他会在分配食物之前称重，在个人吃剩下的份额之前再称重一次，并注意分配的模式。 在为期三个月的试点研究中，调查员还将进行一次普查。 通过对这种相对简单的经济体的研究，我们可以更好地理解塑造人类行为的选择压力。 这项试点研究将评估该小组未来研究的前景。

9976681Marlowe This project investigates the extent of foraging among a forest people of Tanzania about whom little is known. The group to be studied, the Western Hadza, live in a remote area not much connected to the central government or to the tourist influences which are affecting the Hadza who live to the East. Once hunting and gathering is abandoned, one can continue to study the psychology of foragers, so long as the people being studied once foraged and maintain the same attitudes, beliefs and preferences. By studying active foragers, the researcher, a cultural anthropologist from Harvard University, can use quantitative observational methods to learn things about the hunting and gathering niche that can not be learned any other way. He will conduct all day and half day focal follows of men hunting, recording prey encounter and capture rates. He will weigh food acquired before it is distributed, and again before the individual eats the remaining share, and will note the pattern of distribution. In this three-month pilot research the investigator will also conduct a census. Through research on relatively simple economies such as this we can better understand the selection pressures responsible for shaping human behavior. This pilot study will assess the prospects for future research with this group.