Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Investigating the Material Dimensions of Colonialism: The Impact of the Roman State in Southern Gaul

博士论文改进补助金：调查殖民主义的物质维度：罗马国家对高卢南部的影响

• 批准号: 0935847
• 负责人: Michael Dietler
• 金额: $ 1.44万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0935847&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Investigating

Under the supervision of Dr. Michael Dietler (University of Chicago), Benjamin Luley will investigate the changes in daily life that occurred for the Celtic-speaking peoples of what is today southern France at the archaeological sites of Lattes, Nages, Ambrussum, Nîmes, and Narbonne after the Roman conquest. The first four sites were indigenous, densely-settled fortified cities with populations of several thousand inhabitants, whereas the site of Narbonne was an old and very important Roman colony. The region of southern France came under Roman control after 121 B.C., and scholars have often assumed that the peoples of this region willingly and consciously adopted Roman practices and values in a process referred to as 'Romanization'. However, very few studies have investigated the ways in which daily life changed for the native populations of the conquered Roman provinces. As a result, archaeologists have been unable to address the specific ways in which the Roman state impacted indigenous life and the ways in which the indigenous peoples of the provinces became integrated into the Roman Empire and participated in imperial society. This research will involve a new synthesis of the results from excavations at the five sites combined with a residue analysis of sample ceramics, as well as participation in the ongoing excavations at Lattes. This approach breaks with more traditional attempts at investigating the Roman provinces that have largely ignored the daily, domestic aspects of life. In particular, no residue analysis has ever been performed on ceramics from this region, and this project will allow archaeologists to better understand what local peoples were consuming and how these practices changed over time.In a post-colonial world, the effects of modern colonialism are still emphatically present throughout the globe. However, there is a general lacuna in knowledge about the role of daily material life in the changes associated with colonialism. Furthermore, the majority of studies of colonialism have focused on the expansion of modern world powers since the growth of capitalism, primarily through the literary and ethnographic record. This research will therefore provide a needed material perspective for broader comparative studies on colonialism by using a notably rich and well-documented record of colonial interaction in southern France that spanned several centuries. Through a focus on the material dimensions of daily life, the research will address this notable lacuna and allow for an understanding of how the material world functions in colonial transformations. This project will foster interaction between French, Spanish, Catalonian, and American archaeologists at one of the most important international archaeological sites in Western Europe and contribute to deeper collaborative efforts between the French Centre national de la Recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the University of Chicago.

在迈克尔·迪特勒博士（芝加哥大学）的监督下，本杰明·卢利将在拉特斯、纳格斯、安布鲁苏姆、尼姆、罗马征服后的前四个遗址是人口密集的土著城市，拥有数千名居民，而纳博讷遗址是一个古老且非常重要的罗马殖民地地区。法国南部在公元前121年后受到罗马人的控制，学者们经常认为该地区的人民在一个被称为“罗马化”的过程中自愿并有意识地采用了罗马的习俗和价值观，但很少有研究对其进行调查。被征服的罗马省份的土著居民的日常生活发生了变化，因此，考古学家无法解决罗马国家影响土著生活的具体方式以及这些省份的土著人民融入其中的方式。罗马帝国这项研究将涉及对五个遗址的发掘结果进行新的综合，并结合对陶瓷样品的残留物分析，以及参与正在进行的拉特斯发掘工作。这种方法打破了传统的尝试。调查很大程度上忽略了日常生活和家庭生活的罗马省份特别是从未对该地区的陶瓷进行过残留分析，该项目将使考古学家更好地了解当地人的消费方式以及这些做法。随着时间的推移而改变。在后殖民世界中，现代殖民主义的影响仍然在全球范围内明显存在。然而，对于日常物质生活在殖民主义相关变化中的作用的认识普遍存在缺陷。自从资本主义发展以来，主要通过文学和民族志记录来关注现代世界强国的扩张，因此，这项研究将通过使用极其丰富和有据可查的殖民主义记录，为更广泛的殖民主义比较研究提供所需的材料视角。法国南部的互动通过关注日常生活的物质维度，该研究将解决这一显着的缺陷，并帮助人们了解物质世界在殖民变革中的运作方式。该项目将促进法语、西班牙语、加泰罗尼亚语和法语之间的互动。美国考古学家在西欧最重要的国际考古遗址之一，为法国国家科学研究中心 (CNRS) 和芝加哥大学之间更深层次的合作做出了贡献。