Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Resilience In Adaptation To Social Change

博士论文研究改进补助金：适应社会变革的韧性

• 批准号: 1458535
• 负责人: Scott Hutson
• 金额: $ 2.48万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1458535&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Improvement; Grant

Gavin R. Davies of the University of Kentucky together with associates from the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala will investigate how rural communities in the southwestern Maya highlands in Guatemala negotiated the multiple challenges of the Classic to Postclassic Transition (c. 800-1200 AD). Inspired by recent research on the environment and globalization, this research is grounded in notions of community resilience and quality of life, concepts that have significant potential for the comparison of past and present social dynamics and for facilitating cross-disciplinary research. Long an important focus of studies in the Maya Lowlands, this period remains shrouded in mystery in the neighboring highlands, critically undermining understanding of the origins and development of the major social and political entities. Preliminary data from the southwestern highlands, however, indicates that collapse in the lowlands and crisis in the adjacent Pacific Coast may have galvanized political elites in this area to strive for greater integration, urbanism and complexity. However, a lack of rural settlement data means that it is currently impossible to determine how rural households and communities responded to, or were affected by, this transformation. Addressing this lacuna, the current investigations will generate baseline settlement and chronological data for all habitable portions of the western shore of Lake Atitlan region. Representing the first collaboration between the University of Kentucky and the Universidad Del Valle de Guatemala, this project is expected to pave the way for future collaborations between these two institutions and to generate future training and research opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and related disciplines. It will also provide data for Mr. Davies doctoral dissertation.Combining intensive reconnaissance survey, with the test excavation of domestic and non-domestic locales, the investigators will identify patterned responses to broad-level changes and delineate changes in community wealth, identity and resilience. Recognizing that all adaptations entail a cost or trade-off, the primary hypothesis of this research is that the communities that were most prosperous in the aftermath of the crisis were those that traded community autonomy and identity for security by submitting to the rising power of a centralized authority.

加文河肯塔基州大学的戴维斯与危地马拉瓦莱大学的同事一起，将调查危地马拉玛雅高地西南部的农村社区如何应对经典到后经典过渡的多重挑战。公元800-1200年）。受最近关于环境和全球化的研究的启发，这项研究以社区复原力和生活质量的概念为基础，这些概念对于比较过去和现在的社会动态以及促进跨学科研究具有重大潜力。长期以来，这一时期一直是玛雅低地研究的一个重要焦点，但在邻近的高地，这一时期仍然笼罩在神秘之中，严重破坏了对主要社会和政治实体起源和发展的理解。然而，来自西南部高地的初步数据表明，低地的崩溃和邻近太平洋海岸的危机可能激发了该地区的政治精英，以争取更大的一体化，城市化和复杂性。然而，由于缺乏农村住区数据，目前无法确定农村家庭和社区如何应对这一转变，或如何受到这一转变的影响。为了解决这一空白，目前的调查将产生阿蒂特兰湖地区西部海岸所有可居住部分的基线沉降和年代数据。该项目是肯塔基州大学和危地马拉瓦莱大学之间的首次合作，预计将为这两个机构之间的未来合作铺平道路，并为人类学和相关学科的本科生和研究生提供未来的培训和研究机会。它还将为戴维斯先生的博士论文提供数据。结合密集的侦察调查，以及国内和非国内地区的测试挖掘，调查人员将确定对广泛变化的模式化反应，并描绘社区财富，身份和弹性的变化。认识到所有的适应都需要付出代价或权衡，本研究的主要假设是，在危机后最繁荣的社区是那些通过服从中央权力机构的崛起来换取社区自治和身份安全的社区。