Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Colonial Associated Community Interaction

这个项目的目标是调查文化接触的影响中的社会经济差异，特别是关注征服和殖民。从考古学上讲，物质文化提供了一个视角，让研究人员观察过去面对更广泛的社会政治变化时，人们是如何应对外部压力的。此前的研究认为，根植于不平等中的生活质量(QOL)是家庭在文化接触后如何吸收或拒绝新传统中的物质元素的一个因素。他们的项目将专注于陶瓷混合，这是殖民社会的一种常见现象，陶工将外国文化元素融入传统的陶瓷生产序列。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，通常忽略了大量的文化连续性；它将有助于确定过去没有在通常由殖民者创造的书面记录中留下印记的未被充分代表的群体的机构。该项目将展示不平等如何与殖民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，从而成为揭示不平等如何与人们如何应对当前灾难的互动的榜样。我们与过去经历过流行病的人群有什么不同？当时是什么不公平的情况使不平等的家庭更加困难？我们能学到什么？该项目将调查土著居民在领悟人和殖民时代之间的文化连续性。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，殖民对生活质量的强烈负面影响，就像在甘蔗种植园劳动的人口一样，鼓励物质文化的连续性，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。该项目将使用家庭清单，从考古学的角度评估殖民对土著社区在不同时间点的生活质量的影响。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，还将促进与考古学学生合作的教育工作。这项研究将导致对面临广泛压力时的本地化经历有更细微的理解。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.