Doctoral Dissertation Research: Identifying and Characterizing Human-Insect Relations through Material Culture in Western Alaska

博士论文研究：通过阿拉斯加西部的物质文化识别和描述人类与昆虫的关系

• 批准号: 2311345
• 负责人: Brian Boyd
• 金额: $ 5.03万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-15 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2311345&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Identifying; Characterizing

Insects appear in material culture, oral tradition and archaeological contexts across Alaska, yet have received limited attention from scholars. This project explores the representation and meaning of insects in Indigenous material culture of western Alaska. The project will identify Yup’ik and Iñupiaq insect objects from archaeological sites and museum collections; contextualize insects within Indigenous worldviews; and compare and contrast Indigenous insect categories with scientific Linnaean taxonomies. This project advances understanding of the world’s most numerous taxon, both in terms of species and numbers of individuals, and highlights the role of Indigenous knowledge in understanding arctic ecosystems. Funding for this project supports survey of insect objects in eight museum collections; formal iconographic analysis; and the application of both scientific and Indigenous taxonomic identifications to insect depictions. Ethnographic and ethnohistoric sources, combined with interview data, will contextualize the materials. Project findings will be disseminated via an insect-object catalog, conference presentations, peer-reviewed journal articles, and a dissertation.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.

昆虫出现在阿拉斯加的物质文化、口头传统和考古背景中，但学者们对昆虫的关注有限。这个项目探索了昆虫在阿拉斯加西部土著物质文化中的表现和意义。该项目将从考古遗址和博物馆藏品中确定Yup‘ik和Iñupiaq昆虫物品；在土著世界观中结合昆虫的背景；将土著昆虫类别与林奈科学分类法进行比较和对比。该项目在物种和个体数量方面促进了对世界上数量最多的分类群的了解，并突出了土著知识在了解北极生态系统方面的作用。该项目的资金支持对8个博物馆藏品中昆虫物品的调查；正式的图像分析；以及将科学和土著分类鉴定应用于昆虫描绘。人种学和民族史学资料，结合访谈数据，将使这些材料与背景联系起来。项目成果将通过昆虫物体目录、会议报告、同行评议的期刊文章和一篇论文来传播。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。