Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Shared Knowledge, Practice and Identity in Semi-Sedentary Populations

半固定的群体往往生活在更复杂的社会的边缘，通过包括交换和冲突在内的各种机制与这些群体互动。半定居群体在这种边界情况下可能强调或掩盖其身份的某些方面，以促进跨越边界的流动和互动。新墨西哥大学的Patricia Crown博士和Jacqueline Kocer小姐将进行考古研究，以了解位于更复杂社会边缘的半久坐群体是如何协商这些社会边界的，特别是在持续暴力的背景下。这项研究有助于理解“外星人”群体是如何操纵符号，试图融入或抵制同化到一个更强大的社会中的。这项研究还考察了边境沿线群体之间的凝聚力水平，以及他们可能如何团结在一起或派系分化。这一广阔的视角可以为美国今天用来改善边界沿线暴力的政策和战略提供信息。该项目提供了教育机会，包括将协助实验室分析的西班牙裔和美国原住民血统的女科学家和新墨西哥大学具有类似血统的本科生。结果将通过讲座、博物馆展览、通过新墨西哥州大学人类学网站提供的博客以及通过出版物与科学界分享。该项目产生的所有数据将通过数字储存库向公众提供。居住在分散住区的半久居群体是否广泛分享做法和知识？这些团体是否也强调共享的团体身份？当这样的群体生活在一个更复杂的社会政治的边缘时，他们会分享、借鉴或复制他们更复杂的邻居的做法吗？研究人员将通过实践社区和认同社区的模型来评估群体间互动的程度(村庄、区域或跨文化区)和群体认同。参加同一个实践社区的团体有共同的学习背景，他们的“做事方式”也是相似的。低能见度属性用于检查基于陶瓷生产序列中共享的知识和实践的实践社区的规模。高可见度属性将被用来检验身份社区的规模，其中群体通过陶瓷设计通过共享符号来断言他们的身份。新墨西哥州西北部的加里纳文化(公元1050-1300年)是研究这些问题的理想案例，因为它们构成了分散的、半定居的群体，与更复杂的社会政治接壤。他们创造了与邻居不同的文物，生活在一个暴力程度高的地区，烧毁的建筑和骨骼创伤证明了这一点。来自加里纳地区的六个地点的分析将确定接近群体边界如何影响社区凝聚力。这个项目具有广泛的人类学意义，因为了解相互作用的模式如何与共享的知识和实践相关，对世界各地外围半久坐群体如何在多个尺度上相互作用具有影响。

Semi-sedentary groups often live on the peripheries of more complex societies, interacting with those groups through various mechanisms including exchange and conflict. The semi-sedentary groups may emphasize or mask aspects of their identities in such boundary situations to facilitate movement and interaction across the borders. Dr. Patricia Crown and Miss Jacqueline Kocer of the University of New Mexico will conduct archaeological research to understand how semi-sedentary groups located on the periphery of more complex societies negotiated these social boundaries, particularly in a setting of ongoing violence. This research is relevant to understanding how "alien" groups manipulate symbols and either try to blend or resist assimilation into a more powerful society. The study also examines the level of cohesion among groups along the borders and how they might band together or factionalize. This broad perspective can inform on United States policies and strategies used to ameliorate violence along the borders today. The project provides educational opportunities including the co-PI, who is a female scientist of Hispanic and Native American ancestry and undergraduates of similar heritage from the University of New Mexico, who will assist in laboratory analyses. Results will be shared with the public through lectures, a museum exhibit, a blog available through the UNM anthropology website, and with the scientific community through publication. All data generated from this project will be made available to the public through digital repositories.Do semi-sedentary groups living in dispersed settlements share practices and knowledge broadly? Do these groups also emphasize a shared group identity? When such groups live on the periphery of a more socially complex polity, do they share, borrow, or copy practices from their more complex neighbors? The researchers will evaluate the extent of intergroup interaction (village, zone, or across the culture area) and group identity through models of communities of practice and communities of identity. Groups participating in the same community of practice share a background of learning and their "ways of doing" are similar. Low visibility attributes are used to examine the scale of communities of practice based on shared knowledge and practice in the sequence of production for ceramics. High visibility attributes will be used to examine the scale of communities of identity, wherein groups asserted their identity with shared symbols through ceramic design. The Gallina culture (A.D. 1050-1300) of northwestern New Mexico is an ideal case study to examine these issues as they constituted disaggregated, semi-sedentary groups bordering the more socially complex polities on all sides. They created artifacts distinct from their neighbors and are lived in an area with high levels of violence evidenced by burned structures and skeletal trauma. Analysis from six sites from the Gallina area will determine how proximity to group boundaries affects community cohesion. This project is of broad anthropological significance because understanding how patterns of interaction are related to shared knowledge and practice has implications for how peripheral semi-sedentary groups interact at multiple scales throughout the world.