Social Change & the Evolution of Ceramic Production & Distribution in a Maya Community
by Dean E Arnold
Description
How and why do ceramics and their production change through time? This is a unique ethno-archaeological study that attempts to answer these questions by tracing social change among potters and changes in the production and distribution of their pottery in a single Mexican community between 1965 and 1997.
Dean E Arnold made ten visits to Ticul, Yucatan, Mexico, witnessing the changes in transportation infrastructure, the use of piped water, and the development of tourist resorts. Even in this context of social change and changes in the demand for pottery, most of the potters in 1997 came from the families that had made pottery in 1965. This book traces changes and continuities in that population of potters, in the demand and distribution of pottery, and in the procurement of clay and temper, paste composition, forming, and firing.
In this volume, Arnold bridges the gap between archaeology and ethnography, using his analysis of contemporary ceramic production and distribution to generate new theoretical explanations for archaeologists working with pottery from antiquity. When the descriptions and explanations of Arnold's findings in Ticul are placed in the context of the literature on craft specialisation, a number of insights can be applied to the archaeological record that confirm, contradict, and nuance generalisations concerning the evolution of ceramic specialisation.
This book will be of special interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, and ethnographers.
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Bibliographic Information
- Imprint University Press of Colorado
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780870819230 / 0870819232
- Publication Country or regionColorado
- FormatHardback
- Pages351
- Publish StatusPublished
- Responsibilityby Dean E Arnold.
- Page size24
- Illustrationill., maps
- Biblio NotesFormerly CIP.
- SeriesMesoamerican Worlds
- Reference CodeBDZ0008140775
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