Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Informal Identity and the Mimbres Phenomenon: Regional Identity and Archaeological Cultures in the Mimbres Mogollon

博士论文改进补助金：非正式身份和明布尔现象：明布尔莫戈隆地区的区域身份和考古文化

• 批准号: 0624987
• 负责人: Patricia Gilman
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-15 至 2008-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0624987&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Informal

Under the supervision of Dr. Patricia A. Gilman, Bernard A. Schriever will conduct analysis that brings together data from museum collections of three excavated Mimbres sites (Old Town, Galaz, and Wind Mountain) with data collected during his fieldwork to investigate the potential formation of a common identity among them. These sites are but three of many contemporary Mimbres communities located in southwestern New Mexico and occupied from at least A.D. 750 through 1130. While Mimbres sites exhibit differences from each other, there are clearly similarities in development, architecture, and material culture, that distinguish them from sites in surrounding areas (like the Hohokam of Arizona and the Anasazi to the north). In other words, they are a regional phenomenon of shared culture that archaeologists recognize as the Mimbres. Schriever's research focuses on using multiple lines of evidence to examine an essential concern in archaeology. Do the cultures defined by archaeologists, like the Mimbres, simply represent people sharing similar material culture (things), behaviors, and adaptations to the world? Or, could these cultures have been actual identities to the people who shared them?Research into the relationship between archaeologically defined cultures and the identities of the people who lived within the areas encompassed by these cultures is critical in archaeologists' endeavor to explain the processes that lead to the formation, transformations, and dissolution of past societies. This is because identities, such as race, class, and ethnicity, are fundamental to people's daily lives, constraining and guiding their interactions with others. Identities are the basis for how societies are organized. This project examines practices involved in the production and exchange of goods among the inhabitants of three Mimbres communities. Assessing the variation in these practice provides a means to evaluate the extent to which individuals within a community and among the three communities shared common ways of doing things, the basis for identities. Further, documenting whether and how these practices changed through time will provide insight into the amount of interaction and co-production of practices occurring among the communities' inhabitants, key processes in the formation of identities. From a broader perspective, this research begins to provide archaeology with a way to communicate the complexities of identity to the public. Given the publics' interest in archaeology, evidenced by the popularity of archaeology in the media, how archaeologists present past people has ramifications for how the public understands people in the past and thinks about people in the present. Archaeologists need ways to discuss their work that make clear the differences between heuristic devices, like archaeologically defined cultures, and the identities of past people, so that the public does not get the impression that the two are the same. In detailing the complexity of people's identities in the past, archaeologists can help the public recognize that the identities of people today are just as problematic, helping to dispel the monolithic treatment of people based on stereotypes of identities. The results of this research will be disseminated through outlets directed toward a variety of constituent groups: presentations and posters at scientific and academic conferences, particularly those open to the public; a website accessible to both the public and scientific community; and publications prepared for both refereed journals and books directed at the scientific community and those media aimed at the public.

在Patricia A.作者声明：A.施里弗将进行分析，将三个挖掘的明布雷斯遗址（老城，Galaz和风山）的博物馆收藏的数据与他在实地考察期间收集的数据结合在一起，以调查它们之间共同身份的潜在形成。 这些遗址只是位于新墨西哥州西南部的许多当代明布雷斯社区中的三个，至少从公元750年到1130年被占领。 虽然明布雷斯遗址表现出彼此的差异，但在发展，建筑和物质文化方面有明显的相似之处，这将它们与周边地区的遗址（如亚利桑那州的Hohokam和北部的Anasazi）区分开来。 换句话说，他们是一种共享文化的区域现象，考古学家认为这是明布尔人。 施里弗的研究重点是使用多条证据线来研究考古学中的一个基本问题。 考古学家定义的文化，如明布尔人，仅仅代表了人们分享相似的物质文化（事物），行为和对世界的适应吗？ 或者，这些文化对分享它们的人来说是真实的身份吗？研究考古学定义的文化和生活在这些文化所涵盖的地区内的人的身份之间的关系对于考古学家奋进导致过去社会形成，转变和解体的过程至关重要。 这是因为身份，如种族，阶级和民族，是人们日常生活的基础，约束和指导他们与他人的互动。 身份是社会如何组织的基础。 该项目审查了三个明布雷斯社区居民之间的商品生产和交换做法。 对这些做法的差异进行评估，可以评估一个社区内和三个社区之间的个人在多大程度上共享共同的做事方式，这是身份认同的基础。此外，记录这些做法是否以及如何随着时间的推移而变化，将有助于深入了解社区居民之间发生的互动和共同生产的做法数量，这是形成身份的关键过程。 从更广泛的角度来看，这项研究开始为考古学提供一种向公众传达身份复杂性的方法。 鉴于公众对考古学的兴趣，考古学在媒体上的流行证明了这一点，考古学家如何呈现过去的人，对公众如何理解过去的人和思考现在的人有影响。 考古学家需要一些方法来讨论他们的工作，以澄清启发式工具（如考古学定义的文化）与过去人的身份之间的差异，以便公众不会产生两者相同的印象。通过详细说明过去人们身份的复杂性，考古学家可以帮助公众认识到今天人们的身份同样存在问题，有助于消除基于身份刻板印象的单一待遇。 这项研究的结果将通过面向各种组成群体的渠道传播：在科学和学术会议上，特别是向公众开放的会议上的演讲和海报;公众和科学界均可访问的网站;为科学界的期刊和书籍以及面向公众的媒体编写的出版物。