Participatory Mapping and Landscape among an Indigenous Population

原住民参与式测绘和景观

• 批准号: 1323876
• 负责人: Michael Heckenberger
• 金额: $ 9.46万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1323876&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Participatory; Mapping; Landscape; among; Indigenous

Michael Heckenberger and Stephanie Alemán of the University of Florida will conduct participatory mapping using differential GPS (dGPS) and GIS of historical landscapes and collaborative research on local knowledge about areas of historical occupations and land-use among indigenous communities. The research will take place among the Amerindian (Lokono) communities in two study areas in the Berbice and Demerera River areas of Guyana. The research builds on previous research supported by NSF Archaeology, which initiated participatory mapping of pre-Columbian and historical archaeological features of the landscape. These features are well known to local communities and reveal the rich cultural heritage of these Amerindian communities, including a dynamic history of interaction with European colonists and imported African peoples. Several major episodes of pre-Columbian landscape modification have been defined, including mid-Holocene villages and late Holocene settled agriculturalists, with earthen agricultural mounds and associated managed wetlands and forest islands. These occupations at their maximal expression in pre-contact and earliest colonial occupations represent the maximal expression of production and settlement networks and are clearly the cultural antecedents of historical Lokono peoples. Historical sites are known from the early 16th century and include several major episodes, including divergent trajectories of missionized Demerera River community and Berbice plantation communities. Through participatory mapping of these settlements and focused study with specialists on local histories, general ecology and ethno-botanical knowledge, the latter portion of this rich history will be explored, including local knowledge and contemporary land-use of pre-Columbian settlement sites and production landscapes, notably agricultural areas, managed wetlands and forest islands. The project expands participatory research on local knowledge related to the archaeological landscape related to indigenous oral history, contemporary land-use and ethnobotany. All studies will be conducted with indigenous para-technicians with the primary objective of creating geo-spatial data on the Lokono historical landscape from multiple spatio-temporal scales that will be incorporated in project GIS. The project design and outcomes will be discussed during initial training workshop and entrance and exit group forums of research participants and local community leaders, including interviews to gauge changing perceptions and knowledge domains (knowledge maps). The project also involves synergistic activities with project co-director George Simon, a professor at the University of Guyana and Lokono, under the auspices of the Guyana Ministry of Culture and Walter Roth Museum. Results of the project will have important implications for indigenous cultural heritage in the region and sustainable land-use based on historical patterns.

佛罗里达大学的迈克尔·赫肯伯格（Michael Heckenberger）和斯蒂芬妮·阿勒曼（StephanieAlemán）将使用差异GPS（DGP）和GIS进行历史景观的GIS和GIS进行参与映射，以及有关土著社区历史职业和土地利用领域的当地知识的合作研究。这项研究将在圭亚那贝比斯（Berbice）和德梅雷拉河地区（Demerera River）地区的两个研究区域的美洲印第安人（Lokono）社区中进行。该研究基于NSF考古学支持的先前研究，该研究启动了景观前哥伦比亚和历史档案特征的参与映射。这些特征是当地社区众所周知的，并揭示了这些美洲印第安人社区的丰富文化遗产，包括与欧洲殖民者和进口非洲人民互动的动态历史。已经定义了哥伦比亚前景观修改的几个主要事件，包括中世村和晚期全新世定居农业主义者，泥土农业丘，相关的湿地湿地和森林群岛。这些职业在前接触和最早的殖民职业中最大程度地表达了它们的最大表达和建立网络的表达，显然是历史洛科诺人的文化先例。历史遗迹从16世纪初就知道，其中包括几集，包括传教士Demerera River社区和Berbice Plant社区的不同轨迹。通过参与这些环境的参与映射以及与专家有关当地历史，一般生态学和民族植物知识的专家研究，将探讨这一富裕历史的后期，包括当地知识和现代哥伦比亚式环境场所和生产景观的现代土地利用，尤其是农业领域，管理湿地和森林岛。该项目扩大了与与土著口述历史，当代土地使用和民族植物学有关的与存档景观有关的本地知识的参与研究。所有研究都将与土著para技术者进行，其主要目的是从多个时空尺度上创建有关Lokono历史景观的地理空间数据，这些数据将纳入Project GIS。将在最初的培训研讨会以及研究参与者和当地社区领导者的初始培训研讨会，入口和退出小组论坛上讨论项目设计和成果，包括访谈以衡量改变的看法和知识领域（知识图）。该项目还涉及与圭亚那大学文化部和沃尔特·罗斯博物馆（Guyana Cultent Crution and Walter Roth Museum）的主持下的圭亚那大学和洛科诺大学教授乔治·西蒙（George Simon）的协同活动乔治·西蒙（George Simon）。该项目的结果将对该地区的土著文化遗产和基于历史模式的可持续土地使用具有重要意义。