Modernization and its Discontents: Socioeconomic and Biological Influences on Quality of Life

0200767伦纳德，戈多伊，麦克达德三位人类学家的这项试点研究将研究低地玻利维亚（齐马内人）经历快速生活方式改变的土著居民的主观和客观生活质量。研究人员将开发和实地测试生活质量的新措施，以最终测试有关经济发展影响的假设。 他们打算从人群样本中收集基本信息;从相同的人群和社区中收集重复的观察结果，以控制固定属性;并评估与经济成功，营养状况和压力有关的广泛的解释变量。这项研究将在估计不平等如何影响生活质量的理论进展方面具有重要意义。 它将推动从人们那里获取关于其主观幸福状况的信息的方法，并在更广泛的方面，将有助于进行更知情的讨论，并以新的方式思考经济发展、融入市场经济、贸易开放或全球化在多大程度上伤害或帮助传统人民。

0200767Leonard, Godoy, McDade This pilot research by three anthropologists will study subjective and objective quality-of-life in an indigenous population of lowland Bolivia (the Tsimane') undergoing rapid lifestyle change. The researchers will develop and field-test new measures of quality-of-life in order to ultimately test hypotheses about the effects of economic development. They intend to collect primary information from a sample of people; to collect repeated observations from the same people and communities to control for fixed attributes; and to evaluate a broad range of explanatory variables relating to economic success, nutritional status, and stress. This research will be significant in its theoretical advance in estimating how inequalities affect quality of life. It will advance the methodology of eliciting information from people about their subjective state of happiness, and in its broader aspects, will contribute to a more informed discussion and a new way of thinking about he degree to which economic development, integration to a market economy, trade opening or globalization hurts or helps traditional people.