Interrupted Histories, Continuous Feeling: Indigenous Identity Formation and Notions of Heritage in the Southern Caribbean

本博士将研究遗产与加勒比地区土著群体集体认同形成之间的联系。选定的五个案例研究是瓜伊克里（委内瑞拉）、卡奎迪奥（博内尔）、古纳（巴拿马）、卡利纳戈（多米尼加）和圣罗莎（特立尼达和多巴哥）。这个项目将根据一个主要问题和两个衍生问题来构建：(1)土著集体身份如何与加勒比南部的遗产联系起来？(A)遗产的概念如何适用于加勒比地区的非西方殖民地土著群体？(B)殖民主义如何影响南加勒比土著人的特性和遗产的形成？这些问题通过三种方法得到回答：档案工作、实地考察和非结构化访谈。实地访问将分两个阶段进行。第一个是两周的时间，建立联系，调查博物馆、遗产遗址和遗产活动。第二个阶段是为期一个月的实地考察，期间将进行非结构化访谈，以收集有关个人遗产和身份的深入数据。在这个领域之外，我将从事档案和图书馆工作，建立一个以正在研究的土著群体为中心的历史叙事。该项目的成果是关于加勒比地区各种土著集体认同过程的历史形成、当前现实和挑战的五个高分辨率数据集，以及解释这一过程的理论框架。

This PhD will study the connection between heritage and collective-identity formation among indigenous groups in the Caribbean. The five case studies selected are the Guaiqueri (Venezuela), Caquetio (Bonaire), Guna (Panama), Kalinago(Dominica), and Santa Rosa (Trinidad and Tobago). This project will be structured according to one main question and two derivative questions: (1) How does indigenous collective identity relate to heritage in the southern Caribbean? (A)How does the concept of heritage apply to non-western colonial indigenous groups in the Caribbean? (B) How has colonialism impacted indigenous identities and heritage formations in the Southern Caribbean? These questions are answered via three methods: archival work, field site visits, and unstructured interviews. Field visits will be conducted in two phases. The first is a 2-week period establishing contacts and surveying museums, heritage sites, and heritage events. The second is a month of fieldwork during which unstructured interviews will be conducted to gather in-depth data on individual approaches to heritage and identity. Outside of the field, I will be engaged in archival and library work, building a historical narrative centered on the indigenous group being studied. The outcomes of this project are five highresolution data sets on the historical formation, current realities, and challenges of various indigenous collective identityprocesses in the Caribbean and a theoretical framework to explain it.