The Role of Consumption In Social Change

这个项目的目标是调查葡萄酒消费，社会区别，并在殖民和后殖民背景下的身份。自古以来，酒精的生产和消费一直是人类生活的一个组成部分，葡萄酒的消费长期以来一直与更广泛的政治和社会活动模式联系在一起。考古学非常适合通过考虑人类与酒精之间的复杂关系来促进越来越多的关于酒精饮料特殊作用的文献。酒精饮料往往被归入食品的一般类别，或者在葡萄酒等贵重饮料的情况下，与其他奢侈品一起被归入政治经济。但是，这种饮料的消费如何超越其他种类的食品和奢侈品，特别是在跨文化互动和殖民主义的背景下？无论是在今天还是在过去，葡萄酒消费都在标记群体包容或排斥的边界方面发挥着特殊的作用-谁喝酒，何时何地往往代表着更广泛的群体身份，并反映出酒精是如何融入社会世界的，一个在过去和现在都具有广泛相关性的话题。将传统的陶瓷分析与化学残留分析相结合，研究团队将增加一个新的案例研究，政治，这将增加更大的文学，强调酒精饮料的特殊性质，特别是在殖民地边界的背景下。调查人员将研究来自两个殖民地考古收藏的古代葡萄酒。长期连续的占领在这些地点是理想的检查饮用水的潮起潮落的不同控制的地区。这项研究的酒精饮料和饮酒的做法从事更大的考古学和人类学的问题，关于饮酒的做法和有价值的食品，在这种情况下，葡萄酒，在殖民地边境的背景下消费的交集。研究小组对其他生物标志物的探索有可能增强现有方法，并从考古学角度识别葡萄酒的区域性。这些主题与尖端的激光和计算技术相结合，非常适合跨国家的外展活动，将研究人员和学生联系起来，并吸引了更广泛的公众的兴趣。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 wine consumption, social distinction, and identity in colonial and post-colonial contexts. Alcohol production and consumption have been an integral part of the human experience since ancient times, and the consumption of wine has long been linked to broader patterns of political and social activity. Archaeology is well suited to contribute to a growing body of literature on the special role of alcoholic beverages by considering the complex relationships between humans and alcohols across time. Alcoholic beverages tend to be subsumed under the general category of foodways or, in the case of valuable beverages like wine, grouped in the political economy with other luxury goods. But how does the consumption of this beverage transcend other kinds of food and luxury goods, particularly in the context of intercultural interaction and colonialism? Both today and in the past, wine consumption plays a special role in marking boundaries of group inclusion or exclusion—who drinks, when, and where are often representative of broader group identities and reflect how alcohols are incorporated into social worlds, a topic of broad relevance in the past and present day.Combining traditional ceramic analysis with chemical residue analysis the research team will add a novel case study in commensal politics that will add to the larger literature that emphasizes the special character of alcoholic beverages, particularly in the context of colonial frontiers. The investigators will study ancient wine from archaeological collections from two colonial sites. The long continuity of occupation at these sites is ideal for an examination of drinking across the ebb and flow of varying control over the region. This study of alcoholic beverages and drinking practices engages with larger archaeological and anthropological questions regarding the intersection of practices of drinking and the consumption of valuable foodstuffs, in this case wine, in the context of a colonial frontier. The research team’s exploration of additional biomarkers has the potential to enhance existing methods and identify the regionality of wine archaeologically. These topics, in combination with cutting-edge laser and computational techniques, lend themselves extraordinary well to outreach activities across countries, connecting researchers and students as well as capturing the interest of the broader public.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.