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The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community

Author : Dean E. Arnold
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607323141
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community written by Dean E. Arnold and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community

Author : Dean E. Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community written by Dean E. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge

Author : Dean E. Arnold
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607326566
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge written by Dean E. Arnold and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico

Author : Eduardo Williams
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784913561
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico by : Eduardo Williams

Download or read book Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico written by Eduardo Williams and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of papers from the Symposium on Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico, held at the Center for Archaeological Research of the Colegio de Michoacán on September 18-19, 2014.

The Value of Things

Author : Jennifer P. Mathews
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816533520
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Value of Things written by Jennifer P. Mathews and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'éditeur indique : "This book explores how the Mayans gave value to commodities through the lens of anthropology and archaeology."

Ceramics of Ancient America

Author : Yumi Park Huntington
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813052416
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Ceramics of Ancient America written by Yumi Park Huntington and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, anthropology, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramic artifacts has been divided by these three disciplines, this volume shows how integrating these approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American societies. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds in these fields explore what ceramics can reveal about ancient social dynamics, trade, ritual, politics, innovation, iconography, and regional styles. Essays identify supernatural and humanistic beliefs through formal analysis of Lower Mississippi Valley "Great Serpent" effigy vessels and Ecuadorian depictions of the human figure. They discuss the cultural identity conveyed by imagery such as Andean head motifs, and they analyze symmetry in designs from locations including the American Southwest. Chapters also take diachronic approaches—methods that track change over time—to ceramics from Mexico’s Tarascan State and the Valley of Oaxaca, as well as from Maya and Toltec societies. This volume provides a much-needed multidisciplinary synthesis of current scholarship on Ancient American ceramics. It is a model of how different research perspectives can together illuminate the relationship between these material artifacts and their broader human culture. Contributors: | Dean Arnold | George J. Bey III | Michael Carrasco | David Dye | James Farmer | Gary Feinman | Amy Hirshman | Yumi Park Huntington | Johanna Minich | Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski | Jeff Price | Sarahh Scher | Dorothy Washburn | Robert F. Wald

Tarascan Pottery Production in Michoacán, Mexico

Author : Eduardo Williams
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784916749
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Tarascan Pottery Production in Michoacán, Mexico written by Eduardo Williams and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a contemporary pottery tradition in Mesoamerica, but also looks back to the earliest examples of cultural development in this area. By means of ethnographic analogy and ceramic ecology, this study seeks to shed light on a modern indigenous community and on the theory, method and practice of ethnoarchaeology.

Pots, Pans, and People: Material Culture and Nature in Mesoamerican Ceramics

Author : Eduardo Williams
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803278102
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Pots, Pans, and People: Material Culture and Nature in Mesoamerican Ceramics written by Eduardo Williams and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores material culture and human adaptations to nature over time, with a focus on ceramics. The author also explores the role of ethnoarchaeology and ethnohistory as key elements of a broad research strategy that seeks to understand human interaction with nature over time.

Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica After the Spanish Invasion

Author : Rani T. Alexander
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826360157
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica After the Spanish Invasion by : Rani T. Alexander

Download or read book Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica After the Spanish Invasion written by Rani T. Alexander and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive collection features the work of archaeologists who systematically explore the material and social consequences of new technological systems introduced after the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion in Mesoamerica. It is the first collection to present case studies that show how both commonplace and capital-intensive technologies were intertwined with indigenous knowledge systems to reshape local, regional, and transoceanic ecologies, commodity chains, and political, social, and religious institutions across Mexico and Central America.

Innovative Approaches and Explorations in Ceramic Studies

Author : Sandra L. López Varela
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784917370
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis Innovative Approaches and Explorations in Ceramic Studies by : Sandra L. López Varela

Download or read book Innovative Approaches and Explorations in Ceramic Studies written by Sandra L. López Varela and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates thirty years of Ceramic Ecology, an international symposium initiated at the 1986 American Anthropological Association. Contributions explore the application of instrumental techniques and experimental studies to analyze ceramics and follow innovative approaches to evaluate methods and theories.

The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition

Author : Robert J. Sharer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804748179
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition written by Robert J. Sharer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich findings of recent exploration and research are incorporated in this completely revised and greatly expanded sixth edition of this standard work on the Maya people. New field discoveries, new technical advances, new successes in the decipherment of Maya writing, and new theoretical perspectives on the Maya past have made this new edition necessary.

Engendering Mayan History

Author : David Carey Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135394431
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Engendering Mayan History written by David Carey Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to present their worldviews in their native language, adding a rich layer to recent Latin American historiography, and increasing our comprehension of indigenous perspectives of the past. Drawing on years of research among the Maya that specifically documents women's oral histories, Carey gives Mayan women a platform to discuss their views on education, migrant labor, work in the home, female leadership, and globalization. These oral histories present an ideal opportunity to understand indigenous women's approach to history, the apparent contradictions in gender roles in Mayan communities, and provide a distinct conceptual framework for analyzing Guatamalan, Mayan, and Latin American history.

Literary History of Canada

Author : William H. New
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487591160
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Literary History of Canada written by William H. New and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1990-12-15 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and the specialist researcher. The contributors to this volume are Laurie Ricou, David Jackel, Linda Hutcheon, Philip Stratford, Barry Cameron, Balachandra Rajan, Robert Fothergill, Brian Parker, Cynthia Zimmerman, Frances Frazer, Edith Fowke, Bruce G. Trigger, Alan C. Cairns, Douglas Williams, Carl Berger, Shirley Neuman, Raymond S. Corteen, and Francess G. Halpenny.

A Comparative Study of Thirty City-state Cultures

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
ISBN 13 : 9788778761774
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book A Comparative Study of Thirty City-state Cultures written by Mogens Herman Hansen and published by Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. This book was released on 2000 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ethnic Entrepreneurs

Author : Monica DeHart
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804769338
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Entrepreneurs written by Monica DeHart and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic Entrepreneurs examines how diverse groups, including indigenous communities in Latin America and Latino communities in the United States, have become visible and valuable as agents of economic development in Latin America in recent years.

Decolonizing Development

Author : Joel Wainwright
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444399799
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing Development written by Joel Wainwright and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology)) Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power. Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist theory and applied to original research data Amply supplemented with maps and illustrations An intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of postcolonialism, development, geography, and the Maya

Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo

Author : Julie L. Kunen
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816549400
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo written by Julie L. Kunen and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human activity during centuries of occupation significantly altered the landscape inhabited by the ancient Maya of northwestern Belize. In response, the Maya developed new techniques to harvest the natural resources of their surroundings, investing increased labor and raw materials into maintaining and even improving their ways of life. In this lively story of life in the wetlands on the outskirts of the major site of La Milpa, Julie Kunen documents a hitherto unrecognized form of intensive agriculture in the Maya lowlands—one that relied on the construction of terraces and berms to trap soil and moisture around the margins of low-lying depressions called bajos. She traces the intertwined histories of residential settlements on nearby hills and ridges and agricultural terraces and other farming-related features around the margins of the bajo as they developed from the Late Preclassic perios (400 BC-AD 250) until the area's abandonment in the Terminal Classic period (about AD 850). Kunen examines the organization of three bajo communities with respect to the use and management of resources critical to agricultural production. She argues that differences in access to spatially variable natural resources resulted in highly patterned settlement remains and that community founders and their descendents who had acquired the best quality and most diverse set of resources maintained an elevated status in the society. The thorough integration of three lines of evidence—the settlement system, the agricultural system, and the ancient environment—breaks new ground in landscape research and in the study of Maya non-elite domestic organization. Kunen reports on the history of settlement and farming in a small corner of the Maya world but demonstrates that for any study of human-environment interactions, landscape history consists equally of ecological and cultural strands of influence.