Long-Term Impacts of Institutionalized Inequality on Household Wealth and Well-Being

制度化不平等对家庭财富和福祉的长期影响

• 批准号: 1952503
• 负责人: Jessica Munson
• 金额: $ 23.79万
• 依托单位: Lycoming College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1952503&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Long; Term; Impacts; Institutionalized; Inequality

Dr. Jessica Munson will lead a team of researchers to investigate the long-term impacts of institutionalized inequality on household wealth and well-being in ancient society. Inequality is an intrinsic element of large-scale human societies but understanding how disparities in wealth and power differentially impacted the human condition in the past is not well studied. With its long-term perspective, archaeology is poised to make significant contributions to examining the impacts of permanent institutionalized inequality on the everyday lives of past people. This project will analyze disparities in household wealth, social well-being, and health within an ancient community to develop a more detailed understanding of how increasing political power impacted socioeconomic disparities over the span of about 2000 years. Understanding how ancient societies responded and adapted to political instability and socioeconomic differences in the past can provide important lessons as one confronts similar challenges today. This research is designed to improve quality of life concerns for local communities near the field site and project laboratory as well as provide educational opportunities for students from underrepresented groups.Studying the distribution of wealth and well-being in ancient societies requires a large dataset that is representative of the range of socioeconomic differences that were present in the past. Combining new archaeological investigations with analyses of legacy data that spans an approximately two thousand year period, this large-scale excavation project will sample between 40-50 households identified in recent settlement surveys. Multiple quality of life indices will be calculated using data from burials, domestic artifacts, and residential architecture to investigate the impacts of increasing political power on the distribution of household wealth and well-being disparities over this period. The data generated from this project will facilitate an innovative conceptual framework and methodology to analyze multiple kinds of household inequality, providing an important dataset for future comparative studies.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.

杰西卡·曼森博士将带领一组研究人员调查古代社会制度化的不平等对家庭财富和福祉的长期影响。不平等是大规模人类社会的内在因素，但了解财富和权力的差异如何在过去对人类状况产生不同的影响还没有得到很好的研究。从长远的角度来看，考古学将为研究永久性制度化的不平等对过去人们日常生活的影响做出重大贡献。该项目将分析一个古代社区在家庭财富、社会福利和健康方面的差异，以更详细地了解在大约2000年的时间里，日益增长的政治权力是如何影响社会经济差异的。了解古代社会如何应对和适应过去的政治不稳定和社会经济差异，可以为今天面临类似挑战的人提供重要的经验教训。本研究旨在改善现场和项目实验室附近当地社区的生活质量，并为来自代表性不足群体的学生提供教育机会。研究古代社会的财富和福利分配需要一个大的数据集，这个数据集可以代表过去存在的社会经济差异的范围。结合新的考古调查和对跨越大约两千年的遗产数据的分析，这个大规模的挖掘项目将对最近定居调查中确定的40-50户家庭进行抽样。多个生活质量指数将使用来自埋葬、国内文物和住宅建筑的数据来计算，以调查这一时期政治权力增加对家庭财富分配和福祉差距的影响。本项目产生的数据将有助于创新概念框架和方法来分析多种家庭不平等，为未来的比较研究提供重要的数据集。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。

项目成果

Wealth and Well-being in an Ancient Maya Community: A Framework for Studying the Quality of Life in Past Societies

古代玛雅社区的财富和福祉：研究过去社会生活质量的框架

• DOI: 10.1007/s10816-021-09508-8
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Munson, Jessica;Scholnick, Jonathan
• 通讯作者: Scholnick, Jonathan