Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Colonial Associated Community Interaction

博士论文改进奖：殖民地相关社区互动

• 批准号: 2113283
• 负责人: Christopher Pool
• 金额: $ 2.49万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2113283&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Colonial

The goal of this project is to investigate socioeconomic variation in the impacts of culture contact, focusing specifically on conquest and colonization. Archaeologically, material culture provides a perspective that allows researchers to observe how people in the past coped with external stresses when facing broader sociopolitical changes. Previous research has argued that Quality of Life (QOL) embedded in inequality is a factor in how households incorporate or reject material elements from new traditions after culture contact. Their project will focus on ceramic hybridity, a common phenomenon in colonial societies where potters incorporate foreign cultural elements into the traditional ceramic production sequence. The project will contribute to the anthropological understanding of culture contact demonstrating that a great amount of cultural continuity is commonly overlooked when studying processes of conquest; and it will contribute to the methodological issue of identifying the agency of underrepresented groups in the past who did not leave their mark in the written records, usually created by colonizers. The project will demonstrate how inequality interacts with changes brought by colonization such as land use, forced labor, and health among unequal households, thus serving as an example to shed light on how inequality interacts with how people cope with catastrophes in the present. How are we different from populations who experienced epidemics in the past? What were the unfair circumstances that made it more difficult for unequal households back then? What can we learn?The project will investigate cultural continuity of indigenous populations between the prehispanic and colonial eras. It will consider how unequal QOL impacted the ways in which households incorporated elements of European and African styles. It is argued that strongly negative impacts of colonization on QOL, as in populations that labored at sugar plantations, encouraged continuity in material culture to reaffirm indigenous identity. Populations that were not as negatively affected are therefore expected to have adopted a wider range of foreign styles. The project will use household inventories to assess the impacts of colonization from an archaeological perspective of QOL of indigenous communities at various points in time. The project will include members of the local communities, both in fieldwork and in the dissemination of the knowledge produced, also contributing to education working with archaeology students. This research will result in a more nuanced understanding of localized experiences when facing broad scale stress.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.

该项目的目的是研究文化接触影响的社会经济差异，专门针对征服和殖民化。从考古学上讲，物质文化提供了一种观点，使研究人员可以观察过去人们在面对更广泛的社会政治变化时如何应对外部压力。先前的研究表明，嵌入不平等的生活质量（QOL）是家庭如何在文化接触后纳入或拒绝新传统的物质元素的一个因素。他们的项目将集中于陶瓷杂种，这是殖民社会中的常见现象，在殖民社会中，陶艺家将外国文化元素纳入传统的陶瓷生产序列。该项目将有助于对文化接触的人类学理解，表明在研究征服过程时，通常会忽略大量的文化连续性。它将有助于确定过去没有代理人的代理，他们通常在殖民者创建的书面记录中留下自己的印记。该项目将证明不平等与不平等家庭中殖民化，强迫劳动和健康等殖民化所带来的变化相互作用，从而揭示了不平等与人们如何应对当前灾难的相互作用的榜样。我们与过去经历过流行病的人群有何不同？当时，不平等家庭变得更加困难的不公平情况是什么？我们能学到什么？该项目将调查前往前和殖民时代之间土著人口的文化连续性。它将考虑QoL如何影响家庭纳入欧洲和非洲风格的要素的方式。有人认为，殖民化对QoL的强烈负面影响，就像在糖种植园中工作的人群一样，鼓励材料文化的连续性重申本地认同。因此，预计未受到负面影响的人群将采用更广泛的外国风格。该项目将利用家庭库存来评估殖民化的影响，从各个时间点的土著社区的考古学角度来看。该项目将包括当地社区的成员，无论是在野外工作还是传播所产生的知识，也有助于与考古学学生合作的教育。这项研究将在面临广泛的压力时对本地化经历有更细微的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。