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

本研究的主要目的是了解经历过移民事件的社区中社会认同的本质，以及聚集过程如何影响公共和私人尺度上社会认同的差异表达。考虑到当今全球范围内的移民和大规模人口流动的程度，深入了解融合是如何发生或不发生的，具有直接的实际意义。考古学的例子允许在较长的时间框架内进行这样的检查。在E. Charles Adams博士的指导下，Claire S. Barker将探索前西班牙晚期美国西南部社会认同、人工制品风格和实践社区之间的关系。本研究将探讨与制造方法相关的风格如何成为社会身份的一个指标。在公元1200年代和1300年代，美国西南部发生了大规模的迁徙和聚集。在这一人口剧变时期，人们开始接触和生活在不同的、社会疏远的群体中。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。该项目将侧重于三个广泛的问题。在聚集的社区中，社会融合的过程有多强大？通过日常家庭物品表达的社会身份与在公共环境中使用的物品表达的社会身份有何不同？在经历不同程度迁移和聚集的地点，身份表达是否不同？这些问题将通过分析13世纪和14世纪的瓦楞烹饪陶器的风格来探索，这些陶器来自位于亚利桑那州东北部的Homol'ovi聚落群。在考古学中，通过陶瓷对社会身份和文化实践的研究主要集中在装饰陶器上。然而，研究实用软件的重要性往往被忽视。通过分析日常物品，日常家庭活动的碎片来研究这些问题，拟议的研究将证明日常对于理解人们和社区的社会生活的价值。通过关注一个聚落群和其中包含的地点，该项目将从微观区域、多尺度的角度来探讨身份的形成和维护，这将对移民和聚集对社会身份表达的影响产生细致入微的理解。这个项目将使用亚利桑那州立博物馆的藏品。管理和保存是考古学术最重要的原则之一；原地考古遗址和文物是不可替代的。通过利用现有的考古收藏，该项目既保留了原位考古记录，又增加了对亚利桑那州立博物馆收藏的关注。这项研究将通过收集新数据和综合以前未发表的数据，提高这些资料的可用性。此外，这项研究将重点关注与现代霍皮部落祖先有关的遗址和物质文化。更好地了解霍莫罗维聚落群的迁移历史，以及霍莫罗维聚落区内和之间的社会过程，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民、聚集和社会整合过程。

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.