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变化，特别关注征服和殖民。从考古学的角度来看，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。以前的研究认为，生活质量（QOL）嵌入在不平等是一个因素，家庭如何纳入或拒绝新的传统文化接触后的物质元素。他们的项目将专注于陶瓷混合，这是殖民地社会的一种常见现象，陶艺家将外国文化元素融入传统陶瓷生产序列。该项目将有助于人类学对文化接触的理解，表明在研究征服过程时，大量的文化连续性通常被忽视;它将有助于确定过去代表性不足的群体的机构，这些群体没有在通常由殖民者创造的书面记录中留下自己的印记。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科普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？该项目将调查前西班牙和殖民时代之间的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的方式。有人认为，强烈的负面影响的殖民生活质量，在甘蔗种植园劳动的人口，鼓励物质文化的连续性，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。该项目将利用住户清单，从考古学角度评估殖民化对土著社区不同时期生活质量的影响。该项目将吸收当地社区的成员参与实地工作和传播所产生的知识，并与考古学学生一起促进教育。这项研究将导致在面对大规模压力时对本地化体验的更细致入微的理解。该奖项反映了NSF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.