Summer Field Training in Methods to Collect Data

本基金资助文化人类学博士生暑期实地考察训练计划。它继续并扩展了以前由NSF资助（BCS-0353137）支持的项目。培训在玻利维亚的提斯曼人（Tsimane）的两个村庄进行，提斯曼人是亚马逊土著部落，自1999年以来一直在那里进行研究。全体教职员工都贡献了自己的时间，其中包括6名文化人类学家和3名生物人类学家。学生将经历研究的各个阶段（设计、假设制定、分析、展示）。他们接触到正在进行的跨学科研究；提供进行成功合作研究的工具；教授适应和应用数据收集领域的正式方法；并提供了一个刺激，支持的氛围，让他们体验实地工作的现实，同时探索自己的研究兴趣。学生被教导收集生态学、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。将教授核实数据和实现跨场址观察员间可靠性的程序以及如何处理缺失数据；如何在现场编码、存储和清理数据；如何向研究参与者解释人体受试者保护协议；如何做初步的数据分析和撰写，如何处理现场情况下出现的后勤和道德问题；以及在离开研究地点之前如何回馈和向东道国解释研究结果。有了这个奖项，包括两名西班牙裔研究人员在内的pi也致力于通过积极招募少数族裔学生来扩大对科学的参与。

This grant supports a summer fieldwork training program for doctoral students in cultural anthropology. It continues and expands a program supported by a previous NSF grant (BCS-0353137). Training takes place in Bolivia, in two villages of the Tsimane people, a native Amazonian group, where there has been ongoing research since 1999. Faculty, all of whom donate their time, include six cultural and three biological anthropologists. Students are moved through all stages of research (design, hypotheses formulation, analysis, presentation). They are exposed to interdisciplinary research in progress; provided with tools for conducting successful collaborative research; taught to adapt and apply formal methods of data collection in the field; and provided with a stimulating, supportive atmosphere where they experience the realities of fieldwork while exploring their own research interests. Students are 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. With this award, the PIs, who include two Hispanic researchers, also are committed to trying to broaden participation in science by actively recruiting minority students.