Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Long Term Establishment of Social Interactive Ties

博士论文进步奖：长期建立社会互动纽带

• 批准号: 2227814
• 负责人: Amanda Logan
• 金额: $ 1.25万
• 依托单位: Northwestern 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: 2022-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2227814&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Long

This project investigates how social traditions may adapt long-distance economies to local community structures. Previous research suggested that long-distance economies generate inequality by creating opportunities for greater wealth hoarding and status differentiation with prestige goods from distant regions – thereby dissolving local community bonds. However, historians and ethnographers have instead discovered multiple case studies of group-oriented societies altering how long-distance economies interface to limit activities such as wealth-hoarding and blunting the overall inequality. Archaeologists in particular have found examples of major urban settlements involved in long-distance economies that instead retained community-based social structures. Such group-oriented societies are often maintained through regular community-building practices steeped in values of tradition. While it was previously thought that long-distance economies have a “homogenizing” effect, economy rarely overrides tradition and both often intertwine to produce diverse social outcomes. Investigating how long-distance economies localize in such societies will then further understanding on the many possible trajectories cultures undertake in globalizing spheres all over the world.This project specifically aims to examine the outcomes of community-building practices on the localization of long-distance economies through mortuary ceramics. Ceramics often index the circulation of goods in the archaeological record, and mortuary ceramics specifically were often curated as prestige or ritual materials. This project focuses on a region which over long periods of time was involved in long distance trade. Associated mortuary traditions appear to have limited wealth hoarding and status differentiation and instead encouraged community-building dynamics through ceramic material. In collaboration with a research reactor, this project will employ compositional analysis that differentiates ceramic manufactures to examine how such ceramics circulated and were ultimately deposited in tombs. The acquired data would then show who was involved in such exchanges and ultimately allow for evaluation of how successfully community-building practices helped preserve a group-oriented social structure in the context of long-distance trade. The project data will also be used to prepare public-facing visual materials that summarize archaeological research for stakeholders.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.

该项目研究社会传统如何使长距离经济适应当地社区结构。先前的研究表明，远距离经济通过创造机会，让人们囤积更多的财富，用来自遥远地区的名贵商品来区分地位，从而消解了当地社区的纽带，从而产生了不平等。然而，历史学家和民族学家却发现了多个以群体为导向的社会的案例研究，这些研究改变了远距离经济如何相互作用，以限制财富囤积等活动，并削弱了整体的不平等。考古学家特别发现了一些主要城市定居点的例子，这些定居点涉及远距离经济，而不是保留以社区为基础的社会结构。这种以群体为导向的社会往往是通过浸没在传统价值观中的定期社区建设实践来维持的。虽然以前认为长距离经济具有“同质化”效应，但经济很少凌驾于传统，两者往往相互交织，产生不同的社会结果。研究远距离经济如何在这样的社会中本地化，将进一步了解文化在世界各地全球化领域中所采取的许多可能的轨迹。本项目旨在通过殡葬陶瓷考察社区建设实践对异地经济本地化的影响。在考古记录中，陶瓷通常是商品流通的指标，特别是殡葬陶瓷通常被作为威望或仪式材料。这个项目的重点是一个长期从事长途贸易的地区。相关的殡葬传统似乎限制了财富囤积和地位分化，反而鼓励了通过陶瓷材料建立社区的活力。该项目将与一个研究反应堆合作，采用成分分析来区分陶瓷制造商，以研究这些陶瓷是如何循环并最终沉积在坟墓中的。然后，获得的数据将显示谁参与了这种交流，并最终允许评估社区建设实践如何成功地帮助在长途贸易背景下保持以群体为导向的社会结构。项目数据还将用于准备面向公众的视觉材料，为利益相关者总结考古研究。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。