Doctoral Dissertation Research: An Investigation of Change and Continuity in Household Consumption in the Hinterlands of Early Nineteenth-Century Hawaii

夏莫尔将调查殖民扩张，特别是市场经济对夏威夷家庭在偏远地区土著家庭日常生活中的影响。长期以来，研究人员一直在研究殖民环境中的文化接触在微观或家庭层面上推动社会和文化转变的过程。人们常常认为，殖民互动所产生的社会变革，例如采用新形式的家庭经济组织，会在整个土著社会中统一传播。近年来，学者们越来越重视了解个人和社会团体如何以独特和独立的方式参与由地位较高的精英发起的大规模社会和经济趋势。这项研究特别关注殖民时代的夏威夷，考察岛链上与世隔绝地区的群体如何根据当地的需求和关切选择接受、拒绝或修改新引入的家庭做法。考察当地对“自上而下”的社会力量的反应，将有助于更好地理解古代社会和现代社会的社会变革过程。夏威夷和夏威夷的学生将参加所有阶段的工作，为考古学研究生和本科生提供挖掘和实验室技术方面的重要培训机会。这样的指导将有助于增加在夏威夷工作的夏威夷考古学家的代表性，夏威夷是该领域中代表性不足的少数民族群体。威廉和玛丽学院的学生将协助实验室分析阶段，这也将为考古研究技术的应用培训提供一个重要的机会。这项研究将探索名义上处于殖民统治下的偏远边远地区的居民如何应对大规模的社会变革，以及这些反应可能如何随着时间的推移而变化。利用强调地方社区自决的理论框架，本研究重点关注夏威夷考艾岛纳帕里海岸的三个社区，这是一个远离夏威夷政治中心的偏远地区。纳帕利海岸与岛屿的其他部分被高耸的悬崖隔开，这些悬崖限制了该地区的陆路通道。这些遗址位于新兴夏威夷王国边缘的一个与世隔绝的地区，为探索对19世纪殖民主义的反应提供了一个独特的案例研究。该项目使用了多种证据，包括家庭考古和来自历史文献的信息，以比较考艾岛偏远的纳帕利海岸的消费习惯和群岛更中心地区的消费模式。如果19世纪早期的纳帕利海岸家庭确实采取了独特的经济战略，这将是令人信服的证据，表明19世纪的社会和文化变革并不像现在所理解的那样是渐进和不可避免的，而是取决于当地的谈判和争议。这项研究不仅对理解当代欧洲殖民主义的地方反应，而且对理解世界范围内历史背景下大规模社会变化的模式具有重要意义。

Summer Moore will investigate the effects of colonial expansion and, in particular, the market economy on Hawaiian households in the daily lives of indigenous families living in remote regions. Researchers have long studied the processes by which culture contact in colonial settings drives social and cultural shifts at the micro-scale, or household, level. It has often been assumed that social change stemming from colonial interaction, such as adopting new forms of household economic organization, spreads uniformly through indigenous societies. In recent years, scholars have placed increasing emphasis on understanding how individuals and social groups shaped their participation in large-scale social and economic trends initiated by high-status elites in unique and independent ways. This research focuses specifically on colonial-era Hawai'i, examining how groups in isolated areas of the island chain chose to accept, reject, or modify newly introduced household practices based on local needs and concerns. Investigating small-scale, local responses to "top-down" social forces will provide a better understanding of processes of social change in both ancient societies and in the present. Hawaiian and Hawai'i-based students will take part in all phases of work, offering crucial training opportunities for graduate and undergraduate archaeology students in both excavation and laboratory techniques. Such instruction will help increase the representation of Hawaiian archaeologists working in Hawai'i, an under-represented minority group in the field. William & Mary students will assist with the laboratory analysis phase, which will also provide an important opportunity for applied training in archaeological research techniques. This research will explore how inhabitants of remote, outlying regions under nominal colonial control responded to large-scale social transformations, as well as how these responses may have shifted through time. Using a theoretical framework highlighting the self-determination of local communities, this research focuses on three communities on the Nâ Pali Coast of Kaua'i Island, Hawai'i, a remote region located far from Hawai'i's political centers. The Nâ Pali Coast is separated from the rest of the island by high cliffs that restrict overland access to the region. Lying in an isolated region at the margins of the newly emerging Hawaiian Kingdom, these sites provide a unique case study to explore responses to nineteenth-century colonialism. This project uses multiple lines of evidence, including household archaeology and information from historical documents, to compare consumption practices on Kaua'i Island's remote Nâ Pali Coast to patterns seen in more central parts of the archipelago. If early nineteenth-century Nâ Pali Coast households did pursue distinctive economic strategies, it will be compelling evidence that nineteenth-century social and cultural transformations were not progressive and inevitable, as now understood, but instead subject to local negotiation and contestation. This research has implications for understanding local responses not only to European colonialism in the modern era but also to large-scale patterns of social change in historical contexts world-wide.