Doctoral Dissertation Research: Governance, Organizational Complexity, and the Role of Pastoral Communities

博士论文研究：治理、组织复杂性和牧区社区的作用

• 批准号: 2114307
• 负责人: William Honeychurch
• 金额: $ 2.46万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-15 至 2022-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2114307&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Governance; Organizational

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). This doctoral dissertation research project explores whether barriers to governance could be influenced by the incorporation of disparate pastoral communities into processes of governance to service the dietary and mobility needs of herders and livestock. This project is relevant to research on nomadic pastoralism and mobile societies, and is especially pertinent to studies dealing with the relationships between governance, mobility, and herding at the community level. This is an immediate concern currently, as modern herders everywhere grapple with globalization, forced sedentarization, and reduced mobility due to international borders, environmental change and pasture degradation. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in archaeology in methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, the project would enhance public understanding of science and the scientific method by broadly disseminating its findings.Using two existing models of state formation, this research assesses hypotheses for a decentralized and centralized political structure based on changes in human and livestock diet and mobility patterns through time. Data for this analysis comes excavations at two cemeteries and stable (δ13C and δ15N) and radiogenic (87Sr/86Sr) isotope analyses of human and sheep skeletal remains. This project holds promise to generate insights from an understudied area, elucidate unique endogenous and indigenous forms of complex political organization, and evaluate the veracity of historical documents. Such findings would highlight the variability that exists in global forms of pre-industrial political complexity and reinforce the broader anthropological need to examine data generated from patterns of human organization that are not agriculture-centric.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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》（公法117-2）全部或部分资助的。该博士学位论文研究项目探讨了治理障碍是否可能受到不同牧民保险的影响，以服务于养殖者和牲畜的饮食和流动需求。该项目与关于游牧牧民和移动社会的研究有关，并且尤其与在社区层面上处理治理，流动性和放牧之间关系的研究尤其重要。目前，这是一个直接的问题，因为各地的现代牧民都努力应对全球化，迫使久坐化以及由于国际边界，环境变化和牧场退化而降低流动性。除了为在经验，科学数据收集和分析方法中培训考古研究生的资金外，该项目还将通过广泛地传播其发现，从而增强公众对科学和科学方法的理解。使用两种现有的国家形成模型，该研究评估了基于人类和Livestock dittions diety和livestock ottimes dietants time and time dietys time and time ditightions in Chestment consement consement consement of Consement of Condore of Consemation。该分析的数据是在两个公墓和稳定（Δ13C和Δ15N）和放射原（87SR/86SR）同位素分析的人类和绵羊骨骼分析的挖掘。承诺从知识的领域产生见解，阐明复杂政治组织的独特内源性和土著形式，并评估历史文件的真实性。这样的发现将突出以全球形式的工业前政治复杂性形式存在的可变性，并加强了更广泛的人类学需求，以研究不是人类组织模式而不是农业中心的数据产生的数据。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识优点和广泛的crietia crietia criperia criperia criperia crighia criptia criptia cripitia criptia cripitia cripitia criptia criperia criperia cripitia cristeria criperia criperia criperia scrite cripitia cristeria scrantiation he诚实诚实。