Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Salt-making, Craft, and Community at Postclassic and Early Colonial San Bartolome Salinas, Mexico

博士论文改进补助金：墨西哥后经典和早期殖民时期圣巴托洛梅萨利纳斯的制盐、工艺和社区

• 批准号: 1035319
• 负责人: Cynthia Robin
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1035319&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Salt

Under the supervision of Dr. Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, John Millhauser will conduct an archival and archaeological study of the Aztec village of San Bartolom Salinas, located in the Basin of Mexico less than an hour north Mexico City. San Bartolom Salinas was a center of salt production during the Aztec (1430-1521 A.D.) and early Spanish empires (1521-1650 A.D.). Millhauser's research will identify how changing economic and political conditions affected this community of salt makers and, in turn, how the responses of salt-makers shaped their community. More than documenting how communities resist and accommodate the demands of empires, his study will stress how the daily interactions and practices of salt-makers, from cooperation to competition, shaped and were shaped by village life. Millhauser will record archival data pertaining to the development of the community's legal and political identity. He will also conduct extensive mapping, surface collections, and excavations at San Bartolom Salinas to gather data on the portable artifacts and permanent features of salt-making and domestic life. Artifacts and architecture will provide the means to identify variation in wealth and the organization of salt production among the households of the village. Chemical residue, petrographic, and trace-element analyses of salt-making pottery will allow Millhauser to determine how the production and use of salt varied among households and over time. Understanding past societies from the perspective of the community is important because the communities in which people live, work, and interact are central to processes of social solidarity and change. This project will enhance the anthropological study of communities through the careful investigation of changes in material culture that reflect the economic interdependence of households within a single village over time. Furthermore, this project will show how competition and cooperation are both inherent in the fabric of any community by focusing on how the daily practices of work act as sources of social identity and solidarity. Finally, this project is poised to make a substantial contribution to the study of empires and states by combining archaeological and archival data that foreground rural villages as sites of significant social and economic complexity, technological innovation, and political salience.Beyond developing topics of interest to social scientists, this project will enhance public understandings of science, interdisciplinary research between the physical and social sciences, and international communication and cooperation between the United States and Mexico. Collaboration and outreach will involve employing and training crewmembers from the nearby town of Tonanitla, conducting educational tours of ongoing excavations and laboratory work for school groups, and presenting project highlights in a permanent display at a local community museum. This direct community involvement is critical to building a local and long-term commitment to the stewardship of archaeological resources. The project will provide valuable field experience for two student archaeologists from Mexico and the United States. Finally, this research will culminate in Millhauser's dissertation, the findings of which will be disseminated in English and Spanish as scholarly articles, presentations at professional meetings, and lectures geared toward the general public.

在伊丽莎白·M·布鲁姆菲尔博士的指导下，约翰·米尔豪泽将对位于墨西哥城以北不到一小时的墨西哥盆地的阿兹特克村庄San Bartolom Salinas进行档案和考古研究。圣巴托罗姆·萨利纳斯是阿兹特克时期(公元1430-1521年)的食盐生产中心。和早期西班牙帝国(公元1521-1650年)。米尔豪斯的研究将确定不断变化的经济和政治条件如何影响这个盐商社区，进而确定盐商的反应如何塑造他们的社区。除了记录社区如何抵制和适应帝国的要求，他的研究还将强调制盐者的日常互动和做法，从合作到竞争，是如何塑造和被村庄生活塑造的。米尔豪斯将记录与社区法律和政治身份发展有关的档案数据。他还将在San Bartolom Salinas进行广泛的测绘、地面收集和挖掘，以收集有关便携式文物和制盐和家庭生活的永久特征的数据。手工艺品和建筑将提供手段，以确定村中家庭的财富差异和盐生产的组织。制盐陶器的化学残留物、岩相学和微量元素分析将使Millhauser能够确定盐的生产和使用在家庭和时间上是如何变化的。从社区的角度理解过去的社会很重要，因为人们生活、工作和互动的社区是社会团结和变革进程的核心。该项目将通过仔细调查物质文化的变化来加强对社区的人类学研究，这些变化反映了一个村庄内家庭随着时间的推移在经济上相互依存的情况。此外，该项目将通过关注日常工作实践如何作为社会认同和团结的来源，展示竞争与合作如何成为任何社区的内在结构。最后，该项目准备通过结合考古和档案数据，为帝国和国家的研究做出实质性贡献，这些数据突出了农村村庄作为具有重大社会和经济复杂性、技术创新和政治重要性的遗址。除了开发社会科学家感兴趣的主题外，该项目还将增进公众对科学的理解，物理和社会科学之间的跨学科研究，以及美国和墨西哥之间的国际交流与合作。合作和外联将包括雇用和培训附近Tonanitla镇的工作人员，为学校团体进行正在进行的挖掘和实验室工作的教育之旅，并在当地社区博物馆永久展示项目亮点。这种社区的直接参与对于建立当地对管理考古资源的长期承诺至关重要。该项目将为来自墨西哥和美国的两名学生考古学家提供宝贵的实地经验。最后，这项研究将在米尔豪泽的论文中达到高潮，其结果将以学术文章、专业会议上的演讲和面向普通公众的演讲的形式以英语和西班牙语传播。