Migrant worldviews and emergent ecological knowledge

移民的世界观和新兴的生态知识

基本信息

批准号：
2020555
负责人：
Carter Hunt
金额：
$ 28.33万
依托单位：
Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2020555&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Migrant worldviews emergent ecological knowledge

项目摘要

Socio-cultural dynamics within and between groups influence human thoughts, values, conflicts, and behaviors towards the environment and affect anthropogenic change. Environmental anthropology has demonstrated the importance of local knowledge of ecological processes to sustainable management practices, while cognitive anthropology has provided important insights into the nature, organization, and expression of culture. This proposal brings these two theoretical perspectives together to address the cultural dynamics that influence how humans relate to new environments, and in turn, how new environments influence emergent culture. The project will further build research infrastructure and train U.S. graduate students. The objective of this mixed-method, multi-site study is to determine how the in-migration of diverse worldviews into a new environmental setting relates to conservation efforts and conflicts around scarce resources. Ethnographic methods will capture individuals' views of local socio-cultural dynamics in the study context, while cultural consensus analyses will permit quantitative comparison among and between residents based on cultural group, livelihood, and residential community. This mixed method approach ensures broader contributions to anthropological theories explaining dynamic cultural influences on human relationships to the environment in an increasingly mobile, interconnected, and multi-cultural global society. It responds to specific calls for more quantitative environmental anthropology needed to influence natural resource policies, and it also addresses the influence of migration and cultural conflict on anthropogenic environmental impacts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

群体之间和之间的社会文化动力影响人类的思想，价值观，冲突和对环境的行为，并影响人为变化。环境人类学证明了当地对生态过程知识对可持续管理实践的重要性，而认知人类学为文化的性质，组织和表达提供了重要的见解。该建议将这两个理论观点汇集在一起，以解决影响人类与新环境之间如何联系的文化动态，而新环境如何影响新兴的文化。该项目将进一步建立研究基础设施并培训美国研究生。这项混合方法的多站点研究的目的是确定各种世界观向新环境环境的移民如何与保护工作和围绕稀缺资源的冲突有关。民族志方法将在研究背景下捕获个人对当地社会文化动态的看法，而文化共识分析将允许基于文化群体，生计和居民社区的居民之间和之间的定量比较。这种混合方法可确保对人类学理论的更广泛的贡献，解释了在日益流动，相互联系和多元文化的全球社会中对人类关系的动态文化影响。它回应了影响自然资源政策所需的更定量环境人类学的特定呼吁，并且还解决了移民和文化冲突对人为环境影响的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持的。