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Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Integration and Culture Change

博士论文改进奖：融合与文化变革

基本信息

批准号：
2212652
负责人：
R Alan Covey
金额：
$ 2.52万
依托单位：
University of Texas at Austin
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 2024-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2212652&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award Integration

项目摘要

This doctoral dissertation project will investigate how states consolidate power and expand territorial control by transforming rural landscapes. Specifically, this project will track the formation of an imperial heartland in a region inhabited by politically fragmented agropastoral groups. Throughout history, state societies have transformed landscapes to naturalize their authority and discredit indigenous inhabitants by alleging mismanagement of natural resources and land. Although modern nation-states have established borders, disputed land claims still trigger conflict in many world regions and marginalized populations fight for sovereignty and territorial integrity by contesting state authority. This project looks at how states claim occupied territories and support expansion by transforming existing built environments and evaluates the efficacy of such endeavors over the long term. Archaeology is an excellent tool to track the successes and failures of political projects across expansive temporal and spatial scales. Using archaeological methods, this research will evaluate strategies of political sovereignty and identify contradictions that threaten the longevity of state societies, as manifested in the built environment. This project will be conducted in close collaboration with early-career researchers in Peru, providing training and capacity-building opportunities. In addition to forming the basis of dissertation research, two local archaeology students will conduct their thesis research in tandem with the project for the completion of their degrees.The research team will analyze construction and landscape modification practices to understand how the Inkas established and managed their imperial heartland. Taking a long-term view over roughly half a millennium sheds light on the changing geopolitical conditions that shaped this region and the legacies of non-state political units. Ethnically diverse agropastoral groups settled in the Sacred Valley and began to build hilltop villages, agricultural terraces, and above-ground tombs across this mountainous landscape. Centuries later the Inka ethnic group had expanded political influence into the valley; their increasing presence was materialized in irrigated agricultural lands along the valley floor and administrative outposts in local (non-Inka) territories. By the Spanish invasion the valley had become foundational in supporting the Inkas’ sovereign ideology and political economy, which operated through estate systems and intensive landscape engineering projects. How did the Inkas’ strategies of expansion respond to the existing built environment? And how did the Inkas’ interventions impact local inhabitants and landscapes? This research will respond to these questions by defining the practices that shaped this landscape during the late pre-Hispanic period, including the standardization of architecture, centralization of agricultural systems, and diversity in mortuary practices. The contributions of this project include the development of an innovative research methodology that quantitatively measures variation in construction techniques to compare the sociopolitical context of production at local and regional scales. The data produced by this study can be compared with global cases to better understand human behavior including landscape modification practices and territoriality.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.

这个博士论文项目将研究国家如何通过改变农村景观来巩固权力和扩大领土控制。具体而言，该项目将跟踪在政治上分散的农牧群体居住的地区形成帝国中心地带的情况。在整个历史上，国家社会已经改变了景观，使其权威自然化，并通过声称自然资源和土地管理不善来诋毁原住民。尽管现代民族国家已经建立了边界，但有争议的土地主张仍然在世界许多地区引发冲突，边缘化的人口通过争夺国家权力来争取主权和领土完整。该项目着眼于各国如何通过改造现有建筑环境来主张被占领土和支持扩张，并评估这些努力的长期有效性。考古学是一个很好的工具，可以在广阔的时间和空间尺度上跟踪政治项目的成功和失败。使用考古学的方法，这项研究将评估政治主权的战略，并确定威胁国家社会的长寿，表现在建筑环境的矛盾。该项目将与秘鲁的早期职业研究人员密切合作，提供培训和能力建设机会。除了为论文研究奠定基础外，两名当地考古学专业的学生还将在完成学位项目的同时进行论文研究。研究团队将分析建筑和景观改造实践，以了解印加人如何建立和管理他们的帝国中心地带。从大约500年的长期视角来看，塑造这一地区的地缘政治条件不断变化，非国家政治单位的遗产也在不断变化。不同种族的农牧群体定居在圣谷，并开始在这片山区建造山顶村庄、梯田和地上坟墓。几个世纪后，因卡族群的政治影响力扩大到了河谷;他们越来越多的存在体现在沿着谷底的灌溉农田和当地（非因卡）领土的行政前哨。西班牙入侵后，该山谷成为支持印加人主权意识形态和政治经济的基础，通过地产系统和密集的景观工程项目运作。印加人的扩张战略如何应对现有的建筑环境？印加人的干预是如何影响当地居民和景观的？这项研究将回答这些问题，通过定义的做法，塑造了这一景观在后期前西班牙时期，包括建筑的标准化，农业系统的集中化，和多样性的太平间的做法。该项目的贡献包括开发一种创新的研究方法，定量测量建筑技术的变化，以比较地方和区域规模生产的社会政治背景。该研究产生的数据可以与全球案例进行比较，以更好地了解人类行为，包括景观改造实践和领土。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。