Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Studying Social Identity after Migration through Artifact Style of Everyday Objects

这项研究的主要目的是了解经历过移徙事件的社区中社会认同的性质，以及聚集过程如何影响公共和私人层面上社会认同的不同表达。鉴于目前全球范围内的移徙和人员大规模流动的程度，深入了解融合如何进行--或不进行--具有直接的实际意义。考古学的例子允许在更长的时间框架内进行这样的检查。在E.查尔斯·亚当斯博士的指导下，克莱尔·S·巴克将探索社会身份、文物风格和美国西南部晚期领悟人的实践社区之间的关系。这项研究将调查与制作方法相关的风格如何成为社会认同感的指示器。在公元12世纪和13世纪，美国西南部发生了大规模的移民和聚集成大型定居点的事件。在这段人口剧变时期，人们接触并生活在不同的、社会上相距遥远的群体中。这种情况将使不同的个人和社区身份相互接触，并可能发生冲突。这个项目将集中在三个广泛的问题上。聚合社区的社会融合进程有多大威力？通过日常家居物品表达的社会认同与在公共环境中使用的物品表达的社会认同有何不同？在经历了不同程度的迁移和聚合的站点上，身份认同是否有所不同？这些问题将通过对位于亚利桑那州东北部的Homol‘ovi聚落群遗址的13世纪和14世纪波纹烹饪陶器的风格分析来探索。在考古学中，通过陶瓷来研究社会认同和文化实践主要集中在装饰陶器上。然而，研究实用产品的重要性往往被忽视。通过对日常物品的分析来研究这些问题，即普通家庭活动的碎屑，拟议的研究将证明日常生活对于理解人们和社区的社会生活的价值。该项目将侧重于一个聚居群和其中所包含的遗址，从微观区域、多尺度的角度探讨特性的形成和维持，从而对移徙和聚集对社会特性表达的影响产生细致入微的了解。这个项目将使用亚利桑那州立博物馆收藏的藏品。管理和保存是考古学最重要的原则之一；原址考古遗址和文物是不可替代的。通过利用现有的考古藏品，该项目既保存了原址考古记录，又增加了对亚利桑那州立博物馆藏品的关注。这项研究将通过收集新的数据和综合以前未发表的数据来提高这些集合中所包含的信息的可用性。此外，这项研究将侧重于与现代霍皮部落祖先相关的遗址和物质文化。更好地了解Homol‘ovi聚居群的迁徙历史以及Homol’ovi聚居区内和地点之间运作的社会进程，对学者和后代社区都具有重要意义。最后，这项研究将有助于更好地理解与过去和现在所有社会相关的移徙、聚集和社会融合进程。

The primary objective of this research is to understand the nature of social identity in communities that have experienced migration events and how the process of aggregation affects the differential expression of social identity on public and private scales. Given the present day extent of migration and large scale movement of people on a global scale, insight into how integration does - or does not take place - is of direct practical relevance. Archaeological examples permit such an examination within an extended time framework.Under the guidance of Dr. E. Charles Adams, Claire S. Barker will explore the relationship between social identity, artifact style, and communities of practice in the late prehispanic U.S. Southwest. This research will investigate how the style associated with methods of manufacture can be an indicator of social identity. During the A.D. 1200s and 1300s, large-scale migration and aggregation into large settlements occurred throughout the U.S. Southwest. During this period of demographic upheaval, people were coming into contact and living with different, socially distant groups. Such a situation would bring diverse individual and community identities into contact and, potentially, conflict. This project will focus on three broad issues. How powerful was the process of social integration in aggregated communities? How does the social identity expressed through everyday household objects differ from the social identity expressed in objects that were used in public contexts? Is identity differently expressed at sites that experienced differing degrees of migration and aggregation? These issues will be explored through analysis of style in corrugated cooking pottery dating to the 13th and 14th century from the sites of the Homol'ovi settlement cluster located in Northeastern Arizona.In archaeology, the study of social identity and cultural practice through ceramics largely has focused on decorated pottery. However, the importance of studying utility wares is often overlooked. By studying these issues through analysis of everyday objects, the detritus of commonplace domestic activity, the proposed research will demonstrate the value of the everyday for understanding the social lives of people and communities. By focusing on one settlement cluster and the sites contained therein, this project will approach identity formation and maintenance from a micro-regional, multi-scalar perspective that will produce a nuanced understanding of the effects of migration and aggregation on the expression of social identity. This project will use collections held by the Arizona State Museum. Stewardship and preservation are among the most important principles of archaeological scholarship; in situ archaeological sites and artifacts are irreplaceable. By making use of existing archaeological collections, this project both preserves the in situ archaeological record and increases the attention given to the collections residing in the Arizona State Museum. This research will improve the availability of the information housed in these collections by collecting new data and synthesizing previously unpublished data. Further, this research will focus on sites and material culture associated with the ancestors of the modern Hopi tribe. A better understanding of the migration history of the Homol'ovi settlement cluster and the social processes that operated within and between the sites in the Homol'ovi settlement area will be significant both to scholars and to descendent communities. Finally, this research will contribute to a better understanding of migration, aggregation, and the processes of social integration, relevant to all societies, past and present.