Summer field-training program in methods of data collection: Bolivia and Zambia

该项目包括在玻利维亚和赞比亚两个地点进行研究方法的夏季实地培训。培训将为攻读文化人类学博士学位的研究生提供，并将使学生接触到正在进行的跨学科研究；为他们提供进行成功合作研究的工具；教他们适应和应用实地数据收集的正式方法；并为他们提供一个激励和支持的氛围，使他们能够在探索自己的研究兴趣的同时体验实地工作的现实。学生将被教授收集生态学、人口学、实验和家庭经济学、认知人类学、民间知识、自然资源利用和健康方面的数据。将教授验证数据和实现跨站点观察者间可靠性的程序以及如何处理丢失的数据；如何对现场数据进行编码、存储和清理；如何向研究参与者解释人类主体保护协议；如何进行初步数据分析和撰写；如何处理现场情况中出现的后勤和道德问题；以及如何在离开研究现场之前向东道国社区回馈一些东西并解释研究结果。该项目的更广泛影响与学生将接受的强化教育有关，这将提高他们在文化人类学方面进行出色科学实地考察的决心和能力。

This project involves summer fieldwork training in research methodology in two locations, Bolivia and Zambia. The training will be offered to graduate students studying for their doctorate in cultural anthropology, and will expose students to interdisciplinary research in progress; provide them with tools for conducting successful collaborative research; teach them to adapt and apply formal methods of data collection in the field; and provide them with a stimulating, supportive atmosphere where they can experience the realities of fieldwork while exploring their own research interests. Students will be taught to collect data in ecology, demography, experimental and household economics, cognitive anthropology, folk knowledge, natural resource use and health. Procedures for validating data and achieving inter-observer reliability across sites will be taught as well as how to deal with missing data; how to code, store and clean data in the field; how to explain human subject protection protocols to research participants; how to do preliminary data analysis and write up, how to deal with logistical and ethical problems that arise in the field situation; and how to give something back and explain research findings to the host community before leaving the research site. The broader impacts of this project relate to the enhanced education students will receive which will heighten their commitment and ability to do excellent scientific fieldwork in cultural anthropology.