Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Long Term Organizational Principles in Multi-Ethnic Contexts

博士论文改进奖：多民族背景下的长期组织原则

• 批准号: 1741654
• 负责人: Robin Beck
• 金额: $ 1.03万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1741654&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Long

This project will undertake research to investigate how colonial structures and processes related to plantation agriculture were adopted and negotiated within an indigenous context. Though there exists a wide array of historical and archaeological scholarship on plantations and chattel slavery in the American South and Caribbean, there has been relatively little research on the numerous corresponding institutions that existed within Native American nations. Such indigenous contexts encapsulate many of the racial dynamics of 19th century America and provide a unique opportunity to study the malleability of the plantation system across national and cultural boundaries. Due to the dearth of historical documentation on indigenous plantations specifically and the daily lives of the enslaved everywhere, archaeology is particularly suited to such research. Broadly, the project will contribute to popular and academic discussions of the legacies of colonialism and race relations in American society. Locally, the project will include education and outreach through community interaction and volunteer opportunities at a publicly owned site and provide historical context for contemporary debates regarding Native American Freedmens status as tribal citizens. These local interactions allow the research team to engage with traditionally disenfranchised groups and shed light on the historical development of race relations in indigenous settings. The project is guided by one overarching question: How were plantations organized in Native contexts, and how was this different than that of those in Euro-America? To answer this, the research team will evaluate the spatial organization, internal social organization, and the organization of agricultural and industrial production at the George M. Murrell Home (also known as "Hunter's Home"), in Park Hill, Oklahoma, in the heart of post-Removal Cherokee country. The dissertation student, Travis Williams, will lead a team of archaeologists, zooarchaeologists, ethnobotanists, and soil chemists to illuminate the organization of Hunter's Home during the middle of the 19th century through a combination of archaeological data and relevant historical information from extant primary sources. A comparison of these data to the plethora of those from like plantations in Euro-America will reveal differences and similarities in land use, labor organization, consumer practices, and agricultural production at plantations within and outside Cherokee country. The investigators will produce an interdisciplinary dataset germane to comparative analyses for the broader academic community currently engaging with issues of the African Diaspora, Native Americans, and colonialism. The study will also contribute to a growing body of archaeological scholarship exploring the inadequacy of traditional dichotomous categories of colonialism (e.g., colonizer/colonized, continuity/change), as the residents of Hunter's Home moved through, manipulated, and managed both sides of such dichotomies.

该项目将进行研究，以调查与种植园农业有关的殖民结构和程序是如何在土著背景下通过和谈判的。尽管关于美洲南部和加勒比海地区的种植园和动产奴隶制存在着广泛的历史和考古学术研究，但对美洲土著民族中存在的众多相应机构的研究相对较少。这种土著背景概括了19世纪美国的许多种族动态，并为研究种植园系统跨越国家和文化边界的延展性提供了独特的机会。由于缺乏专门关于土著种植园的历史文献，以及各地被奴役的人的日常生活，考古学特别适合进行这种研究。总的来说，该项目将有助于对美国社会中殖民主义遗产和种族关系的流行和学术讨论。在当地，该项目将包括通过社区互动和在公有地点的志愿者机会进行教育和外联，并为当代关于美洲土著自由民作为部落公民的地位的辩论提供历史背景。这些地方互动使研究小组能够接触到传统上被剥夺公民权的群体，并揭示了土著环境中种族关系的历史发展。该项目以一个最重要的问题为指导：种植园是如何在土著背景下组织的，这与欧美的种植园有什么不同？为了回答这个问题，研究小组将评估位于俄克拉何马州帕克希尔的乔治·M·默雷尔之家(也称为“猎人之家”)的空间组织、内部社会组织以及农业和工业生产的组织。乔治·M·默雷尔之家位于切诺基人搬迁后的国家中心。这位名叫特拉维斯·威廉姆斯的博士生将带领考古学家、动物考古学家、民族植物学家和土壤化学家组成的团队，通过结合考古数据和现有原始资料中的相关历史信息，阐明19世纪中期猎人之家的结构。将这些数据与欧美同类种植园的过多数据进行比较，就会发现切诺基国家内外种植园在土地使用、劳工组织、消费者行为和农业生产方面的差异和相似之处。调查人员将产生一个跨学科的数据集，与目前从事非洲侨民、美洲原住民和殖民主义问题的更广泛的学术界的比较分析密切相关。这项研究还将有助于越来越多的考古学学者探索传统二分法殖民主义(例如，殖民者/殖民者，连续性/变化)的不足，因为猎人之家的居民通过、操纵和管理这种二分法的两边。