Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Colonial Subjects, Colonial Space: The production of Portuguese colonial society in Velha Goa from 1510 to 1700.

在Kathleen Morrison博士的指导下，Brian Wilson将探索葡萄牙殖民时期Velha果阿的社会和物质空间生产。在葡萄牙人于1510年征服这座城市之前，Velha果阿已经是南亚的一个重要贸易港口，并迅速成为葡萄牙亚洲帝国的行政和宗教首都。这座城市在17世纪下半叶急剧衰落，首都最终在19世纪40年代迁至帕纳吉。然而，该遗址今天基本上完好无损，无人居住，但除了保存完好的城市行政和宗教核心之外，几乎完全没有记录。因此，它提供了一个理想的地点来研究殖民空间在精英和非精英背景下的生产。该项目的一个潜在目标是描述如何在复杂的社会和Velha Goa遗址中构思和利用“空间”，因为它的保存状态和伴随的历史文献提供了一个很好的背景。由此产生的结论将提供一个框架，可用于许多遗址的社会重建，其中许多是史前遗址，这些遗址的控制可能较少。作为第一个进入亚洲的欧洲强国，葡萄牙人打开了欧洲社会经济向亚洲扩张的大门，有效地开启了现代殖民时代。因此，了解这一最初的殖民冒险对于增进对塑造了过去500年世界历史的更广泛过程的理解至关重要。随着地方实践和全球网络在今天变得越来越紧密地交织在一起，对现代社会经济和政治实践的历史发展有了更深入的了解，与我们的当代世界高度相关。然而，要了解果阿和其他地区的这些进程，学者们不仅要掌握全球社会经济和政治趋势，还要了解这些力量的具体和历史偶然的地方表现。通过使用考古资源，该项目为我们对殖民主义、城市化以及这些过程由当地社会群体调解的方式的了解增加了急需的物质维度。威尔逊先生的研究将开始通过考古调查、系统的地表收集、人工制品分析和历史研究来记录这个重要的殖民遗址。此外，本研究将测试一种新型低空航空摄影（LLAP）平台的有效性，该平台使用彩色和近红外摄影来测量密集的城市环境。使用经济实惠的LLAP系统具有极大的潜力，可以显著提高传统考古调查的速度并降低成本，该项目将有助于证明这种方法可以在研究设计中实施的总体有效性。此外，现代工业、商业和农业的发展开始对考古遗址产生负面影响，使遗址的文献记录成为一件日益紧迫的事情。该项目还将为考古教育、培训和知识传播做出重大贡献。它将与印度考古调查密切合作，来自不同大学的学生志愿者将参与研究。此外，该项目与果阿遗产行动小组有着密切的联系，这将有助于他们的使命，即教育公众和保护果阿的文化遗产。研究结果还将通过在学术期刊上发表、参加会议的方式传播，威尔逊的论文将通过UMI向公众提供。

Under the guidance of Dr. Kathleen Morrison, Brian Wilson will explore the social and material production of space in Velha Goa during the Portuguese colonial period. Before the Portuguese conquered the city in 1510, Velha Goa was already an important port of trade in South Asia, and it quickly became the administrative and religious capital of the Portuguese Asian Empire. The city sharply declined in the latter half of the 17th century and the capital was eventually moved to Panaji in the 1840's. However, the site remains largely intact and unoccupied today yet almost completely undocumented outside of the well preserved administrative and religious core of the city. It thus provides an ideal location to investigate the production of colonial space in both elite and non-elite contexts. An underlying goal of the project is to describe how 'space' is conceived and utilized in a complex society and the Velha Goa site, both because of its state of preservation and the accompanying historical documentation provides an excellent context for this. The conclusions which emerge will provide a framework which can be employed in social reconstructions of numerous sites, many prehistoric, where less control is possible.As the first European power in Asia, the Portuguese opened the door to European socio-economic expansion into the region effectively inaugurating the modern colonial era. Therefore, knowledge of this initial colonial venture is critical to increasing understanding of the broader processes that have shaped the last 500 years of world history. As local practice and global networks continue to become more and more enmeshed today, a greater understanding of the historical development of modern socio-economic and political practices is highly relevant to our contemporary world. To understand these processes in Goa and in other localities, however, scholars must not only grasp global socio-economic and political trends but also understand the specific and historically contingent, local manifestation of these forces. By using archaeological resources, this project adds a much needed material dimension to our knowledge of colonialism, urbanization, and the way these processes are mediated by local social groups. Mr. Wilson's research will begin the process of documenting this important colonial site through archaeological survey, systematic surface collection, artifact analysis, and historical research. In addition, this research will test the effectiveness of a new low level aerial photography (LLAP) platform using both color and near infrared photography for surveying dense urban environments. The use of affordable LLAP systems has great potential to significantly increase the speed and reduce the costs of traditional archaeological survey, and this project will help to demonstrate the overall usefulness with which this method can be implemented into research designs. In addition, modern industrial, commercial, and agricultural developments are beginning to negatively impact the archaeological site, making the documentation of the site an increasingly urgent matter. The project will also make significant contributions to archaeological education, training, and knowledge dissemination. It will be carried out in close affiliation with the Archaeological Survey of India, and student volunteers from various universities will participate in the research. Furthermore, the project has a close association with the Goa Heritage Action Group, and it will help their mission to educate the public and to preserve the cultural heritage of Velha Goa. The results of the research will also be disseminated through publication in scholarly journals, participation in conferences, and Wilson's dissertation will be available to the public through UMI.