Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Colonial Associated Community Interaction

该项目的目标是调查文化接触影响的社会经济变化，特别关注征服和殖民。在考古学上，物质文化提供了一个视角，使研究人员能够观察过去的人们在面临更广泛的社会政治变化时如何应对外部压力。先前的研究认为，嵌入不平等的生活质量（QOL）是家庭在文化接触后如何吸收或拒绝来自新传统的物质元素的一个因素。他们的项目将专注于陶瓷杂糅，这是殖民社会的一种普遍现象，陶工将外国文化元素融入传统的陶瓷生产流程中。该项目将有助于对文化接触的人类学理解，表明在研究征服过程时，大量的文化连续性通常被忽视；而且，它将有助于确定过去代表性不足的群体的作用的方法论问题，这些群体通常由殖民者创造，没有在书面记录中留下痕迹。该项目将展示不平等如何与殖民化带来的变化相互作用，如土地使用、强迫劳动和不平等家庭的健康，从而作为一个例子，阐明不平等如何与人们如何应对当前的灾难相互作用。我们与过去经历过流行病的人群有何不同？当时是什么不公平的环境使不平等的家庭更加困难？我们能学到什么？该项目将调查前西班牙时期和殖民时期之间土著居民的文化连续性。它将考虑不平等的生活质量如何影响家庭融入欧洲和非洲风格元素的方式。有人认为，殖民化对生活质量的强烈负面影响，如在甘蔗种植园劳动的人口，鼓励了物质文化的连续性，以重申土著身份。因此，没有受到负面影响的人群预计会采用更广泛的外国风格。该项目将利用家庭清查资料，从考古角度评估不同时间点土著社区生活质量的殖民化影响。该项目将包括当地社区的成员，参与实地工作和传播所产生的知识，并为考古学生的教育工作作出贡献。这项研究将使我们对面临大范围压力时的局部体验有更细致的了解。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。

The goal of this project is to investigate socioeconomic variation in the impacts of culture contact, focusing specifically on conquest and colonization. Archaeologically, material culture provides a perspective that allows researchers to observe how people in the past coped with external stresses when facing broader sociopolitical changes. Previous research has argued that Quality of Life (QOL) embedded in inequality is a factor in how households incorporate or reject material elements from new traditions after culture contact. Their project will focus on ceramic hybridity, a common phenomenon in colonial societies where potters incorporate foreign cultural elements into the traditional ceramic production sequence. The project will contribute to the anthropological understanding of culture contact demonstrating that a great amount of cultural continuity is commonly overlooked when studying processes of conquest; and it will contribute to the methodological issue of identifying the agency of underrepresented groups in the past who did not leave their mark in the written records, usually created by colonizers. The project will demonstrate how inequality interacts with changes brought by colonization such as land use, forced labor, and health among unequal households, thus serving as an example to shed light on how inequality interacts with how people cope with catastrophes in the present. How are we different from populations who experienced epidemics in the past? What were the unfair circumstances that made it more difficult for unequal households back then? What can we learn?The project will investigate cultural continuity of indigenous populations between the prehispanic and colonial eras. It will consider how unequal QOL impacted the ways in which households incorporated elements of European and African styles. It is argued that strongly negative impacts of colonization on QOL, as in populations that labored at sugar plantations, encouraged continuity in material culture to reaffirm indigenous identity. Populations that were not as negatively affected are therefore expected to have adopted a wider range of foreign styles. The project will use household inventories to assess the impacts of colonization from an archaeological perspective of QOL of indigenous communities at various points in time. The project will include members of the local communities, both in fieldwork and in the dissemination of the knowledge produced, also contributing to education working with archaeology students. This research will result in a more nuanced understanding of localized experiences when facing broad scale stress.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.