Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Local Response to International Change

博士论文改进奖：本土对国际变化的反应

• 批准号: 2003428
• 负责人: Gregory Wilson
• 金额: $ 2.32万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 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: 2020-03-01 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2003428&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Local

This archaeological research examines the decisions and strategies employed by Native individuals and communities in the context of changing colonial relations during the early 19th century in California. Archaeology is well positioned to evaluate this issue because its emphasis on space, time, and objects allows for the reconstruction of how past social agents navigated significant shifts in colonial strategies over time. This is particularly important considering the broadscale social and economic shifts that occurred during the Mission period. While the initial goal of the mission system was to convert local peoples into loyal Spanish subjects, new policies helped free mission laborers from Franciscan rule. The assessment of materials deposited within earlier and later Mission contexts can thus not only provide new insights into the operation of colonialism but can also be used to ascertain the political strategies and daily practices employed by Native groups during these distinct periods in time. These data can be used as a comparative to other regions throughout California, and even across the globe, to understand the differing impacts of colonial policies on indigenous populations and the way that local groups navigated colonialism using their own system of meanings and values. The research will be conducted with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians and California State Parks. Given this broader context, this project undertakes research to study the social organization of one Native community within a mission setting and evaluate how they responded to the retreat of the Spanish frontier inside the mission space. The study of indigenous experiences at Mission La Purísima Concepcíon offers an ideal lens through which to investigate these issues because two distinct stratigraphic/ chronological groups have been previously identified. By exploring labor practices, foodways, craft industries, and trade and exchange from these two distinct contexts, this project sheds light on how the Chumash community at the Mission navigated new colonial policies and relations over time. These results are used to understand evolving indigenous social identities at the community level and regional scale given the broader historical background of sea change happening in Alta California under colonialism.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.

该归档研究考试在19世纪初期在加利福尼亚州改变殖民关系的背景下，本地个人和社区采取的决策和策略。考古学在评估这个问题方面有好处，因为其对空间，时间和物体的重视使过去的社会代理人如何随着时间的推移对殖民策略的重大转变进行重建。考虑到任务期间发生的广泛社会和经济转变，这一点尤其重要。虽然任务系统的最初目标是将当地人转变为忠实的西班牙臣民，但新的政策帮助使宣教士摆脱了方济各会统治。因此，对早期和后期任务环境中沉积的材料的评估不仅可以为殖民主义的运作提供新的见解，而且还可以用来确定本地人在这些不同时期内由本地群体进行的政治策略和日常实践。这些数据可以用作与加利福尼亚州乃至全球其他地区的其他地区的比较，以了解殖民政策对土著人口的区分影响，以及当地群体使用自己的含义和价值观制度导航殖民主义的方式。这项研究将与Chumash印第安人和加利福尼亚州立公园的圣塔伊兹乐队一起进行。鉴于这种更广泛的背景，该项目正在进行研究，以在任务环境中研究一个本土社区的社会组织，并评估他们如何应对宣教空间内西班牙边境的撤退。 LaPurísimaConcepcíon任务的土著经历的研究提供了一个理想的视角来研究这些问题，因为以前已经确定了两个不同的地层/年代学群体。通过探索劳动力实践，食品道，手工艺行业，贸易和贸易以及从这两种不同的环境中的交流，该项目阐明了尚马什（Chumash）社区如何随着时间的推移而新的殖民政策和关系。鉴于在殖民主义下，在阿尔塔加利福尼亚州发生的海洋变化的更广泛的历史背景中，这些结果用于了解社区和区域规模不断发展的个体社会身份。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准通过评估来评估的。