PostDoctoral Research Fellowship

Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria墨西哥殖民地的展示、生产和权力这个少数民族研究和培训博士后奖学金项目考察了物质文化的生产、交流和展示在墨西哥殖民地意识形态和权力转变中的作用。通过使用考古和历史数据，研究人员将比较16世纪墨西哥城和墨西哥盆地土著社区Xaltocan的陶器和布料的使用和生产。在这个比较研究中，他将研究进口和传统阿兹特克手工艺在农村社区和城市中心的展示策略中的作用，并展示早期殖民时期陶器和布料的生产是如何变化的。通过将工艺生产和展示的数据放在更广泛的社会、文化和历史背景下，研究人员将解决工艺生产、消费、展示和支持墨西哥殖民地阶级分层的意识形态形成之间的关系问题。该项目将于2003年夏天在墨西哥开始。他将在Xaltocan进行挖掘，研究该遗址的殖民地陶瓷，并将其与墨西哥城的陶瓷进行比较。在项目的这一阶段，他将与Elizabeth brumfield合作。然后，他将前往安娜堡的密歇根大学人类学博物馆，在那里他将把来自萨尔多坎的250块陶瓷碎片的子样本与博物馆里来自墨西哥的藏品进行比较。在安娜堡，PI将在他的NSF博士后资助科学家杰弗里·帕森斯（Jeffrey Parsons）的监督下工作，他将帮助确定晚期阿兹特克和早期殖民陶瓷之间比较的适当收藏，并将指导PI对这些陶瓷的研究，以获得必要的数据，以了解生产变化。研究人员还将发送250块陶瓷碎片的子样本进行化学表征，以研究陶瓷。来源。最后，他将前往西班牙，研究墨西哥布料的使用和生产，并在塞维利亚的印度档案馆（Archivo General de Indias）查阅历史文献。在西班牙，他将在Jose Hernandez Palomo的监督下工作，他将帮助他确定适当的文件，并计划如何获得项目这一阶段所需的信息。这项研究将对殖民时期文化变迁的研究产生广泛的影响。它将提供一个模型，通过关注参与者如何在殖民时期的权力转换策略中使用物质文化，解决困扰“文化适应”考古研究的一些困境。此外，这个项目将影响意识形态和权力理论，通过关注生产和消费，在一个时期，地位和社会阶层处于前所未有的变化，意识形态和他们的物质方面。通过这项研究，研究将表明意识形态是通过日常生活中的世俗物品，以及这些物品的制造和使用活动来操纵、表达甚至体现的。

Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria Display, Production, and Power in colonial Mexico This Minority Research and Training Post-Doctoral Fellowship project examines the roles of production, exchange, and display of material culture in the transformation of ideologies and power in colonial Mexico. By using archaeological and historical data, the researcher will compare the use and production of both pottery and cloth in sixteenth-century Mexico City and Xaltocan, an indigenous community in the Basin of Mexico. In this comparative study he will examine the role of imports and traditional Aztec crafts in strategies of display in a rural community and an urban center, and show how production of pottery and cloth changed in the early colonial period. By placing the data on craft production and display in a wider social, cultural, and historical context, the researcher will then address issues of the relationship between craft production, consumption, display, and the formation of ideologies that supported class stratification in colonial Mexico. The project will begin in Mexico, in the summer of 2003. He will excavate in Xaltocan to study colonial ceramics in the site and compare them with ceramics from Mexico City. During this phase of the project he will work with Elizabeth Brumfiel. He will then go to the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he will compare a subsample of 250 ceramic sherds from Xaltocan with the collections from Mexico at the Museum. At Ann Arbor, the PI will work under the supervision of Jeffrey Parsons, his NSF post-doctoral fellowship sponsoring scientist, who will help identify the appropriate collections for comparison between Late Aztec and Early Colonial ceramics and will guide the PI's research on these ceramics to obtain the data necessary to understand changes in production. The researcher will also send the subsample of 250 ceramic sherds for chemical characterization to study the ceramics. provenience. Finally, he will go to Spain to study cloth use and production in Mexico with historical documents at the Archivo General de Indias in Seville. In Spain he will work under the supervision of Jose Hernandez Palomo, who will help him identify the appropriate documents and plan how to obtain the information needed for this phase of the project. This study will be of broad impact to studies of cultural change in colonial situations. It will provide a model that resolves some of the quandaries that have plagued archaeological studies of "acculturation" by focusing on how actors used material culture in their strategies for transforming power in the colonial period. Furthermore, this project will impact theories of ideology and power by focusing on production and consumption in a period in which status and social classes were in unprecedented flux, as were ideologies and their material aspects. Through this study, The research will show that ideologies were manipulated, expressed, and even embodied through mundane objects of daily life, and in the activities in which these objects were made and used.