Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Local Response to International Change

博士论文改进奖：本土对国际变化的反应

• 批准号: 2003428
• 负责人: Gregory Wilson
• 金额: $ 2.32万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 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 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2003428&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Local

This archaeological research examines the decisions and strategies employed by Native individuals and communities in the context of changing colonial relations during the early 19th century in California. Archaeology is well positioned to evaluate this issue because its emphasis on space, time, and objects allows for the reconstruction of how past social agents navigated significant shifts in colonial strategies over time. This is particularly important considering the broadscale social and economic shifts that occurred during the Mission period. While the initial goal of the mission system was to convert local peoples into loyal Spanish subjects, new policies helped free mission laborers from Franciscan rule. The assessment of materials deposited within earlier and later Mission contexts can thus not only provide new insights into the operation of colonialism but can also be used to ascertain the political strategies and daily practices employed by Native groups during these distinct periods in time. These data can be used as a comparative to other regions throughout California, and even across the globe, to understand the differing impacts of colonial policies on indigenous populations and the way that local groups navigated colonialism using their own system of meanings and values. The research will be conducted with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians and California State Parks. Given this broader context, this project undertakes research to study the social organization of one Native community within a mission setting and evaluate how they responded to the retreat of the Spanish frontier inside the mission space. The study of indigenous experiences at Mission La Purísima Concepcíon offers an ideal lens through which to investigate these issues because two distinct stratigraphic/ chronological groups have been previously identified. By exploring labor practices, foodways, craft industries, and trade and exchange from these two distinct contexts, this project sheds light on how the Chumash community at the Mission navigated new colonial policies and relations over time. These results are used to understand evolving indigenous social identities at the community level and regional scale given the broader historical background of sea change happening in Alta California under colonialism.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.

这项考古研究考察了19世纪初加州在不断变化的殖民关系背景下，土著个人和社区所采用的决策和策略。考古学很好地评估了这个问题，因为它强调空间、时间和物体，可以重建过去的社会代理人是如何随着时间的推移在殖民战略中进行重大转变的。考虑到特派团期间发生的广泛的社会和经济变化，这一点尤其重要。虽然传教制度的最初目标是将当地人民转变为忠诚的西班牙臣民，但新的政策帮助将传教工人从方济各会的统治中解放出来。因此，对早期和后期特派团背景下存放的材料的评估不仅可以对殖民主义的运作提供新的见解，而且还可以用来确定土著群体在这些不同时期所采用的政治战略和日常做法。这些数据可以用来与加州乃至全球其他地区进行比较，以了解殖民政策对土著人口的不同影响，以及当地群体利用自己的意义和价值观体系驾驭殖民主义的方式。这项研究将与丘马什印第安人的圣伊内斯部落和加州州立公园一起进行。鉴于这一更广泛的背景，该项目进行了研究，研究一个土著社区在传教环境中的社会组织，并评估他们如何在传教空间内应对西班牙边境的撤退。在Mission La Purísima Concepcíon对土著经验的研究为研究这些问题提供了一个理想的视角，因为之前已经确定了两个不同的地层/年代组。通过探索劳动实践，食品方式，手工业，贸易和交流，从这两个不同的背景下，这个项目揭示了丘马什社区如何在任务导航新的殖民政策和关系随着时间的推移。这些结果被用来理解在殖民主义下上加利福尼亚发生的海洋变化的更广泛的历史背景下，在社区层面和区域尺度上不断演变的土著社会身份。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。