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The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community

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The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community

By: Dean E. Arnold

In The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community, Dean E. Arnold continues his unique approach to ceramic ethnoarchaeology, tracing the history of potters in Ticul, Yucatán, and their production space over a period of more than four decades. This follow-up to his 2008 work Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution uses narrative to trace the changes in production personnel and their spatial organization through the changes in production organization in Ticul. Although several kinds of production units developed, households were the most persistent units of production in spite of massive social change and the reorientation of pottery production to the tourist market. Entrepreneurial workshops, government-sponsored workshops, and workshops attached to tourist hotels developed more recently but were short-lived, whereas pottery-making households extended deep into the nineteenth century. Through this continuity and change, intermittent crafting, multi-crafting, and potters' increased management of economic risk also factored into the development of the production organization in Ticul. Illustrated with more than 100 images of production units, The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community is an important contribution to the understanding of ceramic production. Scholars with interests in craft specialization, craft production, and demography, as well as specialists in Mesoamerican archaeology, anthropology, history, and economy, will find this volume especially useful.

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University Press of Colorado

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1607323141

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Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community

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Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community

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This ethnoarchaeological study looks at pottery production in a contemporary Peruvian Andean community.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521543452

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Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge

Cognition, Engagement, and Practice

By: Dean E. Arnold

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Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge

Cognition, Engagement, and Practice

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Based on fieldwork and reflection over a period of almost fifty years, Maya Potters’ Indigenous Knowledge utilizes engagement theory to describe the indigenous knowledge of traditional Maya potters in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico. In this heavily illustrated narrative account, Dean E. Arnold examines craftspeople’s knowledge and skills, their engagement with their natural and social environments, the raw materials they use for their craft, and their process for making pottery. Following Lambros Malafouris, Tim Ingold, and Colin Renfrew, Arnold argues that potters’ indigenous knowledge is not just in their minds but extends to their engagement with the environment, raw materials, and the pottery-making process itself and is recursively affected by visual and tactile feedback. Pottery is not just an expression of a mental template but also involves the interaction of cognitive categories, embodied muscular patterns, and the engagement of those categories and skills with the production process. Indigenous knowledge is thus a product of the interaction of mind and material, of mental categories and action, and of cognition and sensory engagement—the interaction of both human and material agency. Engagement theory has become an important theoretical approach and “indigenous knowledge” (as cultural heritage) is the focus of much current research in anthropology, archaeology, and cultural resource management. While Dean Arnold’s previous work has been significant in ceramic ethnoarchaeology, Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge goes further, providing new evidence and opening up different concepts and approaches to understanding practical processes. It will be of interest to a wide variety of researchers in Maya studies, material culture, material sciences, ceramic ecology, and ethnoarchaeology.

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1607326566

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Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process

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Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process

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A theory of ceramics that elucidates the complex relationship between culture, pottery and society.

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0521272599

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Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge

Cognition, Engagement, and Practice

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Cognition, Engagement, and Practice

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The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community

The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community

Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community

Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community

Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge

Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge

Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process

Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process

Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge

Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge

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