Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Diet and Foodways among Urban Populations

博士论文改进奖：城市人口的饮食和饮食方式

• 批准号: 2328448
• 负责人: Sarah Baitzel
• 金额: $ 3.11万
• 依托单位: Washington 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: 2023-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2328448&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Diet

This project investigates the ways in which colonialism and local competition, conflict, and environmental factors shaped the diets of populations in urban trade centers. Previous scholarship has emphasized how foodways reflect the convergent histories and global interactions of urban trade centers in terms of exotic foods. European colonialism is often understood to impact inadvertently local food systems by introducing new crops or animals and change local tastes and ideas about food, leading to the abandonment or transformation of local food systems, as seen for example in the introduction of rice, potatoes and maize from their points of origin to multiple other regions without considering the diverse cultures of urban residents. Archaeology is well placed to move beyond the focus on colonizing forces to examine how individual experiences related to religion, gender, age and kinship shaped the incorporation of local and foreign resources into diet. By comparing individual dietary histories from various urban centers, what patterns emerge about personalized, communal, and broader regional food choices in response to local and colonial influences? This research provides training for undergraduate students in STEM methods. Results on foodways and personal identities are particularly well suited to be disseminated to scholarly and public audiences in formats that will allow their use for research and especially K-12 educational material. To investigate how urban elites negotiated such influences in light of deeply rooted foodways shaped by global trade networks and local environments, this project reconstructs human dietary patterns using stable isotopic analysis. By applying this method to different human skeletal elements, researchers gain insights into dietary changes through individual lives. Combining dietary and bioarchaeological data with contextual information about burial associations and site locations allows researchers to elucidate dietary patterns related to local environments, gender, and affinity. Based on these fine-grained distinctions, researchers thus are able to assess contributions of local, foreign, and colonial influences on foodways.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.

该项目调查了殖民主义、当地竞争、冲突和环境因素如何影响城市贸易中心人口的饮食。以前的学术研究强调了食物如何反映城市贸易中心在外来食物方面的趋同历史和全球互动。人们通常认为，欧洲殖民主义通过引进新的作物或动物，无意中影响了当地的粮食系统，改变了当地人对食物的品味和观念，导致当地粮食系统的放弃或转变，例如，在不考虑城市居民文化多样性的情况下，将大米、土豆和玉米从原产地引入多个其他地区。考古学很好地超越了对殖民势力的关注，研究了与宗教、性别、年龄和亲属关系有关的个人经历如何塑造了当地和外国资源融入饮食的过程。通过比较不同城市中心的个人饮食历史，在应对当地和殖民影响的过程中，个性化、公共和更广泛的区域食物选择出现了什么样的模式？本研究为本科生提供STEM方法的培训。关于饮食方式和个人身份的结果特别适合以可用于研究，特别是K-12教育材料的形式传播给学术和公众受众。为了研究城市精英如何在全球贸易网络和当地环境形成的根深蒂固的食物方式的影响下进行谈判，本项目利用稳定同位素分析重建了人类的饮食模式。通过将这种方法应用于不同的人体骨骼元素，研究人员可以深入了解个体生活中的饮食变化。将饮食和生物考古数据与有关埋葬关联和遗址位置的上下文信息相结合，研究人员可以阐明与当地环境、性别和亲和力相关的饮食模式。基于这些细微的差异，研究人员因此能够评估本地、外国和殖民对食物方式的影响。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。