Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Approaches To The Analysis Of Ethnic Interaction

这项研究将考察通过帝国殖民者和土著群体谈判他们的身份在古代边疆和殖民地的过程。考古学特别适合解决殖民主义问题，因为文物通常可以为那些在历史文献中不容易被识别的社会成员提供能见度，例如地位低下或被征服的民族。虽然以前的学者认为殖民主义是在土著群体接受殖民者文化的背景下进行的，但最近他们被视为独特的有争议的地方，在那里，殖民者和土著群体通过复杂的思想、传统和物质文化交流，在文化上相互影响。该项目通过关注帝国内部的多重社会经济以及殖民者和当地群体之间复杂的社会互动如何在过去表现出来，填补了一个重要的研究空白。这项研究对今天不同种族群体因冲突、政治或经济机会而产生的人口流动而接触的地区的文化差异谈判具有特别的相关性。一种考古材料为研究文化接触提供了极好的媒介，那就是烹饪。对殖民背景下古代饮食习惯的研究将揭示帝国殖民者和土著群体如何在边境地区修改或重申他们的食物偏好和身份。研究将在秘鲁中部高地进行，重点是两个古瓦里帝国的遗址和一个位于瓦里殖民地附近的土著遗址。瓦里帝国扩张到今天秘鲁的大部分地区，并将许多民族纳入其管理范围，但没有书面记录来了解这些人是谁。因此，来自这些地点的碳化植物数据将被比较，以确定Wari殖民者和土著群体的烹饪方式，并检查Wari殖民者和土著人民之间食物偏好、生产和加工策略的交换，以确定这些不同群体如何相互作用和经历殖民。通过建筑空间、物质文化和古代植物遗迹之间的相关性，殖民和土著群体的食物偏好将被重建和比较，使用植物遗迹来突出这些群体分享其美食的方式，这将允许对过去的殖民主义有一个更动态的看法。该项目将为古代烹饪研究和文化接触提供新的方法，并为学生提供实践培训和教育机会。

This research will examine the processes through which imperial colonists and indigenous groups negotiated their identities within ancient borderlands and colonies. Archaeology is particularly well suited for addressing issues of colonialism because artifacts can often provide visibility to members of society who may not be easily recognized in historical documents, such as low-status or subjugated peoples. While previous scholarship viewed colonialism in the context of indigenous groups adopting the culture of the colonizers, more recently they are viewed as unique contested locations where both colonizing and indigenous groups influence each other culturally through a complex exchange of ideas, traditions, and material culture. This project fills an important research gap by focusing on multiple socioeconomic within empires and how complex social interactions between colonists and local groups were manifested in the past. This research has particular relevance for the negotiation of cultural differences in regions today where dissimilar ethnic groups come into contact as a result of population movement due to conflict, politics, or economic opportunity.One form of archaeological material that provides an excellent medium for examining culture contact is cuisine. The study of ancient food practices within colonial contexts will shed light on how imperial colonists and indigenous groups modified or reaffirmed their food preferences and identities within borderlands. The research will be conducted in the central highlands of the Peru focusing on two sites from ancient Wari Empire and an indigenous site located near one of the Wari colonies. The Wari Empire expanded to cover much of modern-day Peru and incorporated a number of ethnic groups into its administration, yet there are no written records to understand who these people were. As a result, the carbonized plant data from these sites will be compared to determine the cuisine of Wari colonists and indigenous groups and examine the exchange of food preferences, production, and processing strategies between Wari colonists and indigenous peoples to identify how these different groups interacted and experienced colonization. The food preferences of colonial and indigenous groups will be reconstructed and compared through correlations between architectural space, material culture, and ancient plant remains using plant remains to highlight the ways in which these groups shared their cuisine, which will allow for a more dynamic view of colonialism in the past. This project will generate new methods for the study of ancient cuisine and culture contact and provide hands-on training and education opportunities for students.