Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Religion and Social Relations: A case study of Quaker Ideology and the Practice of Caribbean Slavery

博士论文改进补助金：宗教与社会关系：贵格会意识形态与加勒比奴隶制实践的案例研究

• 批准号: 0929563
• 负责人: Laurie Wilkie
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0929563&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Religion

Under the direction of Dr. Laurie Wilkie, Mr. John Chenoweth will collect data for his doctoral dissertation thesis. Religion is a cultural phenomenon through which other aspects of social identity can be articulated, are negotiated, contested, and made explicit.If daily life has an effect on cultural change and ethnogenesis, as most archaeologists would argue, then the degree to which religious ideology affected daily life is an important variable. This project will evaluate the strength of religion as a structuring principle in social relations through the study of an 18th century Caribbean plantation which was home to the white landowning family, members of the Quaker religious group, and at least 7 enslaved Africans. The study site is a now uninhabited, 155 acre island near Tortola, in the British Virgin Island, ten acres of which have been identified as containing heavy 18th century habitation with excellent preservation. The study hypothesizes that religious ideology of Quakerism will alter social relations, producing observable material differences from sites where that ideology is absent, even at the expense of economic rationality. Because of the contradictions between Quaker ideology and the practice of slavery, it is predicted that religion will be most clearly identifiable archaeologically in the relationship between the Quaker owners and the enslaved Africans they held. The project will employ surface survey and focused excavations of the homes of the enslaved and the owners in order to address this question.The research will serve as an integral part of Mr. Chenoweth's academic training and to the development of his expertise as a researcher.

在劳里威尔基博士的指导下，约翰切诺维斯先生将为他的博士论文收集数据。宗教是一种文化现象，通过它，社会身份的其他方面可以被表达、协商、争论和明确。如果日常生活对文化变迁和民族起源有影响，正如大多数考古学家所认为的那样，那么宗教意识形态影响日常生活的程度就是一个重要的变量。 该项目将通过研究一个18世纪世纪加勒比种植园来评估宗教作为社会关系结构原则的力量，该种植园是白色地主家庭、贵格会宗教团体成员和至少7名被奴役的非洲人的家园。 研究地点是英属维尔京群岛托尔托拉附近一个现在无人居住的155英亩的岛屿，其中10英亩已被确定为包含大量的18世纪世纪居住区，保存完好。 这项研究假设，贵格会的宗教意识形态将改变社会关系，产生明显的物质差异，从网站的意识形态是缺席，即使在经济合理性的牺牲。 由于贵格会的意识形态和奴隶制的实践之间的矛盾，据预测，宗教将是最明确的确定考古学之间的关系，贵格会业主和被奴役的非洲人，他们举行。 为了解决这个问题，该项目将对被奴役者和所有者的房屋进行地面调查和重点挖掘，这项研究将成为Chenoweth先生学术培训的一个组成部分，并发展他作为研究人员的专门知识。