MRI Acquisition of Instruments for Advanced Research in Visual Anthropology

视觉人类学高级研究仪器的 MRI 采集

• 批准号: 1040483
• 负责人: Brian Brazeal
• 金额: $ 28.66万
• 依托单位: Chico State Enterprises
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1040483&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Instruments; Advanced; Research

With a Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Anthropology at California state University Chico will acquire a 4K digital cinema camera and an integrated system of high-powered computers, servers and peripheral devices to create an Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropology. This facility will be the most advanced laboratory dedicated to anthropological cinema production in the world. Undergraduate students, graduate students, outside researchers and faculty at CSU, Chico's Department of Anthropology will collaborate on visual anthropological research projects. Research will encompass ethnography, archeology, biological and forensic anthropology and museum studies. Advances in digital cinema technology are revolutionizing motion picture production and hold the potential to revolutionize the field of visual anthropology. The compact and robust camera system can withstand the rigours of anthropological field research, while producing images of the highest quality. Digital formats facilitate the dissemination, presentation and archiving of the results of that research. Students will be integrated into research teams led by faculty and outside researchers where they will receive the training necessary to conceive and execute anthropological documentary research projects. By enabling researchers to discover those aspects of culture only observable in an audio-visual mode, this new technology holds transformative potential for visual anthropology as a discipline. In order to advance knowledge and understanding within visual anthropology, it is necessary to produce motion pictures of the highest possible quality. High production values are essential to visual anthropology's twin aims of producing visual documents for scientific analysis and documentaries for wide dissemination. Digital Cinema technology frees the anthropologists from the constraints imposed by the film crew. Visual documentation will be produced by researchers who have rigorous training both in traditional anthropological methods and in cinema production. The use of these technologies holds potential to transform research in the field of visual anthropology by creating digital documentaries of a hitherto unattainable quality.This project advances knowledge and understanding by putting a leading-edge research instrument in the hands of students and faculty. The majority of students in the Department of Anthropology are women and members of underrepresented minority groups. This project will open up leading-edge research opportunities to them that are not available elsewhere. It promotes research and learning by creating a facility for high-level teaching and research training in visual anthropology. It will represent a dramatic enhancement of the research and education abilities of the Department of Anthropology and the University as a whole. Visual anthropological projects are uniquely suited for wide dissemination, as films are screened for large audiences in classrooms and conferences throughout the world. Results will also be disseminated through television broadcast, digital libraries, professional conferences and the internet. This broad dissemination makes visual anthropology well-suited to anthropology's traditional social mission of teaching respect and tolerance for cultural diversity throughout the world. This represents a benefit to society in a world riven by conflict born of a lack of intercultural understanding.

借助国家科学基金会的主要研究仪器赠款，加利福尼亚州立大学奇科的人类学系将收购4K数字电影摄像机和一个集成的高功率计算机，服务器和外围设备的系统，以创建视觉人类学的高级实验室。该设施将是最先进的实验室，致力于世界上人类学电影的生产。奇科人类学系CSU的本科生，研究生，外部研究人员和教职员工将在视觉人类学研究项目上合作。 研究将涵盖人种学，考古学，生物学和法医人类学和博物馆研究。数字电影技术的进步正在彻底改变电影的产生，并具有彻底改变视觉人类学领域的潜力。紧凑而健壮的相机系统可以承受人类学现场研究的严格性，同时产生最高质量的图像。 数字格式促进了该研究结果的传播，表现和归档。学生将被纳入由教师和外部研究人员领导的研究团队，在那里他们将获得构想和执行人类学纪录片研究项目所必需的培训。通过使研究人员只能在视听模式下发现文化的那些方面，这项新技术具有视觉人类学作为学科的变革潜力。为了促进视觉人类学内的知识和理解，有必要生产最高质量的电影。高生产价值对于视觉人类学的双胞胎目的至关重要，即产生视觉文档，以进行科学分析和纪录片以进行广泛的传播。数字电影技术使人类学家摆脱了电影工作人员的限制。视觉文档将由在传统人类学方法和电影制作中进行严格培训的研究人员制作。这些技术的使用具有通过创建迄今无法获得质量的数字纪录片来改变视觉人类学领域的研究。该项目通过将领先的研究工具掌握在学生和教职员工的手中来提高知识和理解。人类学系的大多数学生是妇女和代表性不足的少数群体的成员。 This project will open up leading-edge research opportunities to them that are not available elsewhere. 它通过创建用于视觉人类学的高级教学和研究培训的设施来促进研究和学习。它将代表人类学系和整个大学的研究和教育能力的显着增强。视觉人类学项目非常适合广泛的传播，因为在世界各地的教室和会议上的大量观众筛选了电影。结果还将通过电视广播，数字图书馆，专业会议和互联网传播。这种广泛的传播使视觉人类学非常适合人类学的传统社会使命，尊重和对世界各地的文化多样性的尊重和宽容。这代表了一个因缺乏跨文化理解而诞生的世界中对社会的好处。