Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: An Investigation of Long Term Culture Contact and Accommodation

博士论文改进奖：长期文化接触与适应的调查

• 批准号: 1735033
• 负责人: Takeshi Inomata
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1735033&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Investigation

The goal of this research is to understand how communities adapt to exposure to a new religious influence, how this is incorporated into a traditional extant world view and the material manifestations of this process. This issue is of central importance in the world today as lack of successful integration lies at the heart of conflicts in many regions of the world. Through the examination of the colonial process in which pre-hispanic New World cultures were exposed to Christianity through Spanish colonization it is possible to examine multi-religion interaction over extended periods of time.Under the direction of Dr. Takeshi Inomata, Mr. Victor Castillo will conduct archaeological investigations at Chiantla Viejo, a small highland Maya settlement that transitioned to Spanish colonial rule during the 16th century. In order to address the mechanism of community survival in colonial settings, Castillo's research will study how the continued use of the plaza by the local community for public concentrations and massive rituals left room for negotiation between external innovations and traditional ritual practices. Combining the analysis of site layout, targeted excavations, and laboratory analyses, this project will provide a substantive dataset to evaluate the dimension of culture change as a political outcome during a critical transitional period for small local communities. Castillo´s work will provide new grounds for addressing religious change beyond traditional models of acculturation and syncretism by studying a more complex and localized scenario of cultural interactions within the framework of colonialism. The investigations at Chiantla Viejo also integrates a constructive dialogue with the modern community surrounding the site since the place is treasured as the ancestral location of the modern town of Chiantla, thus raising awareness about the protection and preservation of the local archaeological patrimony. Ultimately, this work will present a more proximate and locally situated account of the ways in which native Maya groups responded to the colonial impact and how pre-Hispanic communities managed to transition successfully to colonial life and even outlasted the Spanish domination up to modern times.

这项研究的目的是了解社区如何适应新的宗教影响，如何将其纳入传统的现存世界观以及这一过程的物质表现，这个问题在当今世界中至关重要，因为缺乏宗教影响。成功的一体化地区是世界许多地区冲突的核心。通过考察前西班牙新世界文化通过西班牙殖民而接触基督教的殖民过程，可以考察长期的多宗教互动。 time.在Takeshi博士的指导下Inomata先生，Victor Castillo将在Chiantla Viejo进行考古调查，Chiantla Viejo是一个小型高地玛雅定居点，在16世纪过渡到西班牙殖民统治时期。为了解决殖民环境中社区生存的机制，Castillo的研究将研究如何继续。当地社区利用该广场进行公共集会和大型仪式，为外部创新和传统仪式实践之间的谈判留下了空间，该项目将结合场地布局分析、有针对性的挖掘和实验室分析。卡斯蒂略的工作提供了一个实质性数据集，用于评估当地小型社区关键转型时期文化变革作为政治结果的维度，这将为通过研究更复杂和本地化的传统模型来解决宗教变革提供新的基础。 Chiantla Viejo 的调查还融入了与该地点周围的现代社区的建设性对话，因为该地方被视为现代城镇 Chiantla 的祖先所在地。最终，这项工作将更贴近、更贴近当地地描述当地玛雅群体应对殖民影响的方式，以及前西班牙社区如何成功过渡。殖民生活甚至比西班牙的统治持续到现代。