SGER: Socioecology and Social Structure

斯蒂芬·贝克曼博士将利用这笔奖金完成对南美热带森林社会委内瑞拉Barí的人种学研究。在这项研究中有四个主要的数据缺口需要解决：1)所有Barí地方和领土群体的位置和身份；2)与non-Barí邻居的Barí关系；3)可分割父权，这是一种非常罕见的亲属关系制度，在这种制度下，多个父亲共同抚养一个孩子；(4)家庭经济与婚姻行为的关系。完成Barí社会的文件是重要的，因为很少有群体在接触前仍然可以收集到生态和人口信息。迄今为止的研究表明Barí社会实践对生态无害。例如，不可分割的父权关系显著提高了儿童的存活率。完成Barí的文件将有助于科学家了解人类社会生态系统的全部范围。这项研究还支持国际科学合作。

Dr. Stephen Beckerman will use this award to complete ethnographic research on a South American tropical forest society, the Barí of Venezuela. There are four major data gaps to be addressed in this research: 1) the locations and identities of all Barí local and territorial groups; 2) Barí relationships with non-Barí neighbors; 3) partible paternity, a very rare kinship system in which multiple fathers share paternal status for a single child; and 4) the relationship between household economy and marriage practices. Completing documentation of Barí society is important because there are very few groups for which pre-contact ecological and demographic information still can be gathered. Research to date has shown that Barí social practices were ecologically sound. For example, partible paternity significantly increases child survivorship. Completing documentation of the Barí will help scientists to understand the full range of human socioecological systems. The research also supports international scientific collaboration.