Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Long Term Organizational Principles in Multi-Ethnic Contexts

博士论文改进奖：多民族背景下的长期组织原则

• 批准号: 1741654
• 负责人: Robin Beck
• 金额: $ 1.03万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 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: 2017-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1741654&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Long

This project will undertake research to investigate how colonial structures and processes related to plantation agriculture were adopted and negotiated within an indigenous context. Though there exists a wide array of historical and archaeological scholarship on plantations and chattel slavery in the American South and Caribbean, there has been relatively little research on the numerous corresponding institutions that existed within Native American nations. Such indigenous contexts encapsulate many of the racial dynamics of 19th century America and provide a unique opportunity to study the malleability of the plantation system across national and cultural boundaries. Due to the dearth of historical documentation on indigenous plantations specifically and the daily lives of the enslaved everywhere, archaeology is particularly suited to such research. Broadly, the project will contribute to popular and academic discussions of the legacies of colonialism and race relations in American society. Locally, the project will include education and outreach through community interaction and volunteer opportunities at a publicly owned site and provide historical context for contemporary debates regarding Native American Freedmens status as tribal citizens. These local interactions allow the research team to engage with traditionally disenfranchised groups and shed light on the historical development of race relations in indigenous settings. The project is guided by one overarching question: How were plantations organized in Native contexts, and how was this different than that of those in Euro-America? To answer this, the research team will evaluate the spatial organization, internal social organization, and the organization of agricultural and industrial production at the George M. Murrell Home (also known as "Hunter's Home"), in Park Hill, Oklahoma, in the heart of post-Removal Cherokee country. The dissertation student, Travis Williams, will lead a team of archaeologists, zooarchaeologists, ethnobotanists, and soil chemists to illuminate the organization of Hunter's Home during the middle of the 19th century through a combination of archaeological data and relevant historical information from extant primary sources. A comparison of these data to the plethora of those from like plantations in Euro-America will reveal differences and similarities in land use, labor organization, consumer practices, and agricultural production at plantations within and outside Cherokee country. The investigators will produce an interdisciplinary dataset germane to comparative analyses for the broader academic community currently engaging with issues of the African Diaspora, Native Americans, and colonialism. The study will also contribute to a growing body of archaeological scholarship exploring the inadequacy of traditional dichotomous categories of colonialism (e.g., colonizer/colonized, continuity/change), as the residents of Hunter's Home moved through, manipulated, and managed both sides of such dichotomies.

该项目将进行研究，以调查如何在土著背景下采用和谈判与种植园农业有关的殖民结构和过程。尽管在美国南部和加勒比海地区，关于种植园和动产奴隶制的历史和考古学奖学金都有各种各样的奖学金，但对美国原住民国家中众多相应的机构的研究相对较少。这种土著环境封装了19世纪美国的许多种族动态，并提供了一个独特的机会来研究跨国家和文化边界的种植园系统的锻造性。由于缺乏有关土著种植园的历史记录以及各地被奴役的日常生活的缺乏，考古学特别适合这种研究。从广义上讲，该项目将有助于对美国社会中殖民主义和种族关系遗产的流行和学术讨论。在当地，该项目将通过社区互动包括教育和宣传，并在公共场所进行志愿者机会，并为当代辩论提供有关美国原住民自由女mens地位作为部落公民的历史背景。这些本地互动使研究团队能够与传统上被剥夺的团体互动，并阐明了土著环境中种族关系的历史发展。该项目以一个总体问题为指导：种植园是如何在本地环境中组织的，这与欧美裔美国人的种植园有何不同？为了回答这一点，研究团队将在俄克拉荷马州帕克山的乔治·M·默雷尔（George M. Murrell）家中评估乔治·M·默雷尔（George M.论文学生特拉维斯·威廉姆斯（Travis Williams）将通过考古学家，动物考察学家，民族植物学家和土壤化学家团队在19世纪中叶通过考古数据和相关历史信息的结合来照亮亨特家的组织。将这些数据与欧洲欧美地区类似种植园类似种植园的人的比较将揭示土地使用，劳动组织，消费者实践和切诺基国家内部种植园的差异和相似之处。研究人员将对目前与非洲侨民，美洲原住民和殖民主义问题的更广泛学术界进行比较分析，以生产跨学科的数据集进行比较分析。这项研究还将为越来越多的考古学奖学金提供贡献，探讨了传统的殖民主义二分法类别不足（例如，随着亨特家的居民经过，操纵和管理此类二分法的两边，亨特家的居民居住，殖民者/殖民化，连续性/变化）。