The Role of Consumption In Social Change

这个项目的目的是调查葡萄酒消费，社会区别，以及殖民和后殖民背景下的身份。自古以来，酒精的生产和消费一直是人类生活中不可或缺的一部分，而葡萄酒的消费长期以来一直与更广泛的政治和社会活动模式联系在一起。考古学非常适合为越来越多的关于酒精饮料的特殊作用的文献做出贡献，通过考虑人类与酒精之间的复杂关系。酒精饮料往往被归入食品的一般类别，或者，就像葡萄酒这样的贵重饮料而言，在政治经济学中与其他奢侈品归为一类。但是，这种饮料的消费如何超越其他种类的食品和奢侈品，特别是在跨文化互动和殖民主义的背景下？无论是在今天还是在过去，葡萄酒消费在标志群体包容或排斥的界限方面都起着特殊的作用——谁喝酒，什么时候喝酒，在哪里喝酒往往代表着更广泛的群体身份，反映了酒精是如何融入社会世界的，这是一个过去和现在都具有广泛相关性的话题。将传统的陶瓷分析与化学残留物分析相结合，研究小组将在共生政治中增加一个新的案例研究，这将增加更大的文献，强调酒精饮料的特殊性，特别是在殖民地边界的背景下。调查人员将研究来自两个殖民地遗址的考古藏品中的古代葡萄酒。在这些地点的长期连续占领是理想的，通过对该地区的不同控制的潮起潮落来检查饮酒。这项关于酒精饮料和饮酒习惯的研究涉及更大的考古和人类学问题，涉及饮酒习惯和有价值食物消费的交集，在这种情况下是葡萄酒，在殖民边境的背景下。研究小组对其他生物标记物的探索有可能增强现有的方法，并从考古学上确定葡萄酒的地域性。这些主题与尖端激光和计算技术相结合，非常适合在各国开展外联活动，将研究人员和学生联系起来，并引起更广泛公众的兴趣。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。

The goal of this project is to investigate wine consumption, social distinction, and identity in colonial and post-colonial contexts. Alcohol production and consumption have been an integral part of the human experience since ancient times, and the consumption of wine has long been linked to broader patterns of political and social activity. Archaeology is well suited to contribute to a growing body of literature on the special role of alcoholic beverages by considering the complex relationships between humans and alcohols across time. Alcoholic beverages tend to be subsumed under the general category of foodways or, in the case of valuable beverages like wine, grouped in the political economy with other luxury goods. But how does the consumption of this beverage transcend other kinds of food and luxury goods, particularly in the context of intercultural interaction and colonialism? Both today and in the past, wine consumption plays a special role in marking boundaries of group inclusion or exclusion—who drinks, when, and where are often representative of broader group identities and reflect how alcohols are incorporated into social worlds, a topic of broad relevance in the past and present day.Combining traditional ceramic analysis with chemical residue analysis the research team will add a novel case study in commensal politics that will add to the larger literature that emphasizes the special character of alcoholic beverages, particularly in the context of colonial frontiers. The investigators will study ancient wine from archaeological collections from two colonial sites. The long continuity of occupation at these sites is ideal for an examination of drinking across the ebb and flow of varying control over the region. This study of alcoholic beverages and drinking practices engages with larger archaeological and anthropological questions regarding the intersection of practices of drinking and the consumption of valuable foodstuffs, in this case wine, in the context of a colonial frontier. The research team’s exploration of additional biomarkers has the potential to enhance existing methods and identify the regionality of wine archaeologically. These topics, in combination with cutting-edge laser and computational techniques, lend themselves extraordinary well to outreach activities across countries, connecting researchers and students as well as capturing the interest of the broader public.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.