Doctoral Dissertation Research: Identifying and Characterizing Human-Insect Relations through Material Culture in Western Alaska

博士论文研究：通过阿拉斯加西部的物质文化识别和描述人类与昆虫的关系

• 批准号: 2311345
• 负责人: Brian Boyd
• 金额: $ 5.03万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 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: 2023-06-15 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2311345&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Identifying; Characterizing

Insects appear in material culture, oral tradition and archaeological contexts across Alaska, yet have received limited attention from scholars. This project explores the representation and meaning of insects in Indigenous material culture of western Alaska. The project will identify Yup’ik and Iñupiaq insect objects from archaeological sites and museum collections; contextualize insects within Indigenous worldviews; and compare and contrast Indigenous insect categories with scientific Linnaean taxonomies. This project advances understanding of the world’s most numerous taxon, both in terms of species and numbers of individuals, and highlights the role of Indigenous knowledge in understanding arctic ecosystems. Funding for this project supports survey of insect objects in eight museum collections; formal iconographic analysis; and the application of both scientific and Indigenous taxonomic identifications to insect depictions. Ethnographic and ethnohistoric sources, combined with interview data, will contextualize the materials. Project findings will be disseminated via an insect-object catalog, conference presentations, peer-reviewed journal articles, and a dissertation.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.

昆虫出现在阿拉斯加各地的物质文化、口头传统和考古背景中，但受到学者的关注有限。该项目探讨了昆虫在阿拉斯加西部土著物质文化中的代表性和意义。该项目将识别尤皮克族和伊努皮克族昆虫物品。来自考古遗址和博物馆收藏；将昆虫置于土著世界观中；并将土著昆虫类别与科学的林奈分类法进行比较和对比。和个体数量，并强调了土著知识在了解北极生态系统中的作用，该项目的资金支持对八个博物馆收藏的昆虫物品进行调查；以及将科学和土著分类学鉴定应用于昆虫描述。民族历史资料与访谈数据相结合，将通过昆虫对象目录、会议演示、同行评审的期刊文章和论文来传播材料。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命。通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，并被认为值得支持。