Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: The Role of Material Culture in Determining Social Affiliation

博士论文改进奖：物质文化在决定社会归属中的作用

• 批准号: 2330878
• 负责人: Charles Cobb
• 金额: $ 2.64万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330878&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Role

This doctoral dissertation project utilizes the concept of globalization, or the process of interaction and integration among diverse people, to investigate the spread and adoption of customs over space and time. While it is tempting to draw broad comparisons between many groups that share commonalities in practices, belief systems, and material culture, globalization can potentially transform groups into blended communities with complex identities. Globalization as a social process is most often used to describe the modern world, but versions of this phenomenon can be recognized throughout history. Like modern processes, premodern examples represent the spread of cultural traits on impressive scales that fostered transformative interaction and restructuring. This study addresses globalization by analyzing how changes in ceramic manufacturing can be indicative of how ‘global’ craft knowledge was transferred within regions and the degree at which these practices were integrated with local traditions. Beginning around AD 1000, one region experienced a period of globalization (“Mississippianization”), which affected many aspects of religious and daily life. While ongoing archaeological research of the mid-continental United States often focuses on a pattern of discrete cultural attributes spread from a central location, premodern globalization was more likely a variable process that led to differing local versions of a shared culture based in part upon each group’s political, environmental, and social settings. The project focuses on this era of critical social change, as well as the centuries preceding and following, (AD 600-1550). To understand the fusion of global and local practices, this project studies how cultural transformations unfold through daily technical potting choices at the macroscopic, microscopic, and elemental levels. This project integrates chemical data collected via laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) and mineralogical data collected via ceramic petrography and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Instead of concentrating on prestige items, this study shows that everyday objects, including very small sherds, can be used to understand the adoption and adaptation of past traditions. These compositional studies assess the array of ceramic manufacturing practices, which will inform regarding continuity, change, and amalgamation of natural resource utilization and technological choices over space and time.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.

这个博士学位论文项目利用了全球化的概念或潜水员之间的互动和融合过程，调查海关在时空上的传播和采用。尽管在许多群体之间进行广泛的比较虽然在实践，信仰体系和物质文化中共享共同点的群体之间进行了广泛的比较，但全球化可能会将群体带入具​​有复杂身份的混合社区。全球化是一个社会过程，通常用于描述现代世界，但是在整个历史上都可以认可这种现象的版本。像现代过程一样，前现代的例子代表了文化特征在令人印象深刻的尺度上的传播，从而促进了变革性的相互作用和重组。这项研究通过分析陶瓷制造业的变化如何表明“全球”手工艺知识如何在区域内转移以及这些实践与当地传统融为一体的程度来解决全球化。从公元1000年开始，一个地区经历了一段全球化（“密西西比州化”），这影响了宗教和日常生活的许多方面。虽然对美国中部的正在进行的档案研究通常集中于从中心位置传播的离散文化属性模式，但前现代全球化更可能是一个可变过程，导致了不同的本地版本的共享文化，部分基于每个小组的政治，环境，社会环境。该项目着重于这个批判性社会变革的时代，以及前面和之后的几个世纪（AD 600-1550）。为了了解全球和地方实践的融合，该项目研究了通过宏观，微观和元素水平的每日技术盆栽选择来展开文化转变。该项目整合了通过激光消融电感耦合等离子体质谱法（LA-ICP-MS）和通过陶瓷岩石摄影和X射线衍射（XRD）收集的矿物学数据收集的化学数据。这项研究没有专注于声望项目，而是表明，包括非常小的棚屋在内的每天都可以用来了解过去传统的采用和适应。这些构图研究评估了陶瓷制造实践的阵列，这些实践将告知有关自然资源利用的连续性，变化和合并，并在时空上和技术选择中进行融合。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来支持的。