Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: The Emergence Of Unique Regional Identity

得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的阿德里亚娜·利纳雷斯-帕尔马将进行一项研究，研究后古典时期危地马拉圣胡安科扎尔的身份政治。她将研究为什么Ixil玛雅人具有独特的地域特征，以及Ixil玛雅人如何回应后古典时期晚期（公元1250-1530年）在中美洲玛雅高地的kiche玛雅扩张主义。该项目旨在了解中美洲地区的社会政治冲突和移民对Ixil后古典社区中人们与景观、领土和社会身份的关系的影响。为了研究Ixil身份的发展，研究将集中在Ixil的区域定居模式、建筑和人工制品上，并与该地区其他玛雅群体进行比较。通过考古、档案和民族志调查，研究人员将研究伊西尔人的定居模式和古代材料，以确定伊西尔人是孤立的，还是与该地区的其他玛雅群体有联系，以及在后古典时期，他们是否与该地区的不同玛雅群体形成了网络，还是保持了自治。利纳雷斯-帕尔马将带领一组学生对正在研究的考古遗址进行测绘，这是他们专业发展的一部分。这项研究将提供有关传统社会如何适应区域环境并与其他群体相互作用的信息。研究将在圣胡安科扎尔进行，奎奇？它是伊西尔地区的三个城镇之一。研究人员和学生团队将绘制所有考古遗址的地图，以探索以下问题：Ixil定居模式和物质是否反映了后古典时期K‘iche’政治实体的扩张倾向？它们是否反映了后古典时期不同的玛雅高地和低地群体之间的联系、自治甚至网络？通过对Ixil建筑结构的空间分析，结合之前考古研究的背景数据，以及对陶瓷和其他文物的分析，研究人员将把Ixil的特定特征与其他玛雅高地和低地定居点进行比较。他们将结合玛雅高地的社会政治组织，这些组织通过建筑、空间配置和定居模式可见。通过在危地马拉基切的圣胡安科扎尔进行考古、档案和人种学研究，研究人员将扩展移民理论；地域政治与文化冲突、社会网络与身份政治。此外，研究人员将扩展先前为玛雅高地提出的分段谱系组织理论，并有助于改进先前对Ixil地区的解释。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Adriana Linares-Palma, of the University of Texas at Austin, will undertake research to study identity politics in San Juan Cotzal, Guatemala, during the Postclassic period. She will research why the Ixil Maya have a unique regional identity and how the Ixil Maya responded to K'iche' Maya expansionism during the Late Postclassic period (A.D. 1250-1530) in the Maya highlands of Mesoamerica. The project aims to understand what effect socio-political conflict and migration in the Mesoamerican region had upon people's relationship to landscape, territory, and social identities in Ixil Postclassic communities. To study the development of Ixil identity, research will focus on the regional settlement patterns, architecture, and artifacts of the Ixil, in comparison to those of other Maya groups in the region. Through archaeological, archival, and ethnographic investigation, researchers will examine Ixil settlement patterns and ancient materiality to determine if Ixil people were in isolation or in contact with other Maya groups in the area, and whether they formed networks or maintained autonomy with respect to diverse Maya groups in the area during the Postclassic Period. Linares-Palma will lead a team of students to conduct mapping of the archaeological sites under study as part of their professional development. The research will provide information into how traditional societies adapt within a regional context and interact with other groups.Research will be conducted at San Juan Cotzal, Quich?, one of three towns of the Ixil region. The researcher and team of students will map all the archaeological sites in order to explore the following questions: do Ixil settlement patterns and materiality reflect isolation from the expansionist tendency of the K'iche' political entity during the Postclassic period? Do they reflect instead contact, autonomy and perhaps even networks with diverse Maya groups of the highlands and lowlands during the Postclassic Period? Through spatial analysis of Ixil architectural configuration, incorporation of contextual data from previous archaeological research, as well as an analysis of ceramics and other artifacts, researchers will compare particular characteristics of the Ixil with other Maya highland and lowland settlements. They will incorporate socio-political organizations of lineages among the Maya highlands, which are visible through architecture, spatial configuration, and settlement patterns. Through archaeological, archival and ethnographic research at San Juan Cotzal, Quiche, Guatemala, researchers will expand on theories of migrations; regional political and cultural conflicts social networks and identity politics. Moreover, researchers will expand on theories of segmentary lineage organization previously proposed for the Maya highlands, as well as contribute to the refinement of previous interpretations of the Ixil region.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.