Doctoral Dissertation Research: Gender at the Nunalleq Site: Community Perspectives from Quinhagak, Alaska

该项目的目标是从阿拉斯加Quinhagak的居民那里收集关于性别和Yup'ik过去生活方式的信息，并将这些知识应用于对Nunalleq接触前遗址社会生活的考古解释。对Quinhagak的Yup'ik居民的采访将集中在Yup'ik社区过去如何定义性别，以及性别身份如何在Nunalleq的文物和建筑空间中考古学上可见。使用社区知识作为考古学解释的基石，确保了Yup'ik的观点在研究过程中得到尊重，并以复杂和上下文的方式考虑性别社会身份。作为一个以社区为基础的项目，这项研究是一个更大的学科运动的一部分，土著社区参与规划和实施考古项目，并解释和分析所产生的数据。这种方法的好处是多方面的：基于社区的研究不仅关注土著社区的具体需求和条件（其中许多人被边缘化），而且这种战略往往会产生更有力和与公众相关的研究问题和分析。努纳莱克遗址和邻近的昆哈加克社区一起为基于社区的性别研究提供了一个独特的机会。努纳莱克位于昆哈加克外仅几英里处，长期以来一直是当地历史上的一个固定景点，它与13 - 17世纪世纪弓箭战争的联系将其与更广泛的地区遗产联系在一起，而这些遗产却鲜少被探索。努纳列克一直受到显着的永久冻土保护，与不寻常的质量文物被回收在非常高的数字。拥有高质量的考古数据以及对该遗址有知识和兴趣的社区的融合，为基于社区的性别和社会身份研究创造了理想的环境，这些主题最好通过强大的考古和口述历史数据进行探索。性别和社会认同的主题在区域考古研究中很少受到关注，这进一步表明了这项研究的重要性，因为努纳莱克作为考古资源的地位越来越受到环境变化的威胁。

The goal of this project is to collect information about gender and Yup'ik lifeways of the past from residents of Quinhagak, Alaska, and to apply this knowledge to archaeological interpretations of social life at the pre-contact site of Nunalleq. Interviews with Yup'ik residents of Quinhagak will focus on how Yup'ik communities defined gender in the past, and how gendered identities may be visible archaeologically in the artifacts and built spaces of Nunalleq. Using community knowledge as the cornerstone for archaeological interpretations ensures that Yup'ik perspectives are honored in the research process and that gendered social identities are considered in a complex and contextual manner. As a community-based project, this research is part of a larger disciplinary movement towards Indigenous community involvement in the planning and implementation of archaeological projects and the interpretation and analysis of resultant data. The benefits of such approaches are myriad: not only does community-based research attend to the specific needs and conditions of Indigenous communities (many of whom are marginalized), but such strategies often result in more robust and publically-relevant research questions and analysis. Together, the Nunalleq site and the neighboring community of Quinhagak provide a unique opportunity for community-based research on gender. Located just a few miles outside of Quinhagak, Nunalleq has long been a fixture in local histories, and its links to the 13th-17th century Bow and Arrow wars connect it to a broader regional heritage that has been little explored. Nunalleq has been subject to remarkable permafrost preservation, with artifacts of unusual quality being recovered in very high numbers. The confluence of having high-quality archaeological data alongside a community with knowledge of and interest in the site creates an ideal setting for community-based research on gender and social identities, themes that are best explored with robust archaeological and oral historical data. That themes of gender and social identity have received little attention in regional archaeological studies further suggests the importance of this study, as does Nunalleq's status as an archaeological resource increasingly threatened by environmental change.