Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards
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- 23-581
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National Science Foundation
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- Not on record
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Opportunity facts
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- Grant
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- Science and Technology and other Research and Development
- Eligible applicants
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- Unrestricted
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About this opportunity
The National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology Program is offering grants to support fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training that increases understanding of human social and cultural variability. The program welcomes proposals from researchers in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology, utilizing a range of methodologies including ethnographic field research, surveys, data analysis, and computational modeling. The overarching goal is to produce empirically grounded findings that contribute to building a more robust anthropological science of human society and culture. Proposals must focus on advancing anthropological theories rather than primarily pursuing applied policy or clinical practice objectives. The evaluation will emphasize the proposal's potential to generate new knowledge and make a significant contribution to the field of cultural anthropology.
The grants under this program typically range from $30,000 to $500,000, with project periods spanning 1-5 years. The research is expected to be conducted at academic and research institutions across the United States, contributing to the scientific understanding of human behavior, social dynamics, and cultural phenomena.
Synopsis
The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding of the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability. The Cultural Anthropology Program welcomes proposals from researchers in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology and research at any temporal or spatial scale. Methodologies and approaches employed may include ethnographic field research, surveys, remote sensing, the collection of bio-markers, experimental research inside or outside of laboratory settings, archival research, the analysis of materials collections and extant data bases, mathematical and computational modeling and other research tools as appropriate for the proposed research. The overarching research goals should be to produce empirically grounded findings that will be generalizable beyond particular case studies and contribute to building a more robust anthropological science of human society and culture. The National Science Foundation's mandate is to support basic scientific research. Basic research in cultural anthropology means theory-generating and theory-testing research that creates new knowledge about human culture and society. Therefore, the Cultural Anthropology Program cannot support research that takes as its primary objective improved clinical practice, applied policy or other immediate application. Research that seeks to advance scientific cultural anthropological theories in a way that advances use-inspired objectives may be supported, but the theory-advancing objectives must be clearly at the center of the proposal. A proposal to use anthropological methods and approaches only to find solutions to social, medical or other problems without specifically proposing to make a theory-testing or theory-expanding contribution to anthropological science will be returned without review.
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