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Palestinian traditional pottery : a contribution to Palestinian culture / John Landgraf, Owen Rye ; Elizabeth Burr, Jean-Baptiste Humbert, Owen Rye, Hamed Salem, editors.
Penn Museum Library NK4146.6.A1 L36 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Landgraf, John, author.
- Rye, Owen S., author, editor.
- Series:
- Cahiers de la Revue biblique ; 101.
- Cahiers de la Revue biblique. Series archaeologica ; 3.
- Cahiers de la Revue Biblique ; 101
- Cahiers de la Revue Biblique. Series archaeologica ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pottery--Palestine.
- Pottery.
- Pottery--20th century.
- Palestinian Arabs--Material culture.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Potters--Palestine.
- Potters.
- Archaeology and history--Palestine.
- Archaeology and history.
- Antiquities.
- Palestine--Antiquities.
- Palestine.
- Middle East--Palestine.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 329 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, maps, plans, portraits ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leuven : Peeters, 2021.
- Summary:
- "'Palestinian Traditional Pottery' stands out, first and foremost, as a scholarly testimony to the disappeared and disappearing craft of traditional pottery making by Palestinian women and men potters. It offers a contribution that has been long awaited and is long overdue. The material it provides, both textual and pictorial, is based on field research completed in the 1970s by two very different, yet complementary, researchers and authors. For various reasons, this material lay dormant over four decades until it was retrieved and returned to the light of day. The occasion for the creation of the volume was the death in 2017 in the U.S. of one of the authors, John Landgraf. Fortunately, the other author, Owen Rye in Australia, had most of the written material still in his possession, which was then digitized, arranged, and edited. The graphic material, especially the black and white - and beautiful color - photographs, taken by the two authors, was also gathered and cataloged for use in the book. The photographs of the women potters are particularly poignant, since they date to the final decade of their pottery making activity. Assembling and producing the book required months of painstaking collaborative work by the editors and the layout artist, with results that are worthy of their efforts. This volume invites readers into the two distinct worlds of Palestinian women and men potters at work in the 1970s: the women in or outside their village homes, and the men in their mostly urban workshops. With Palestinian culture under siege, the scholarship presented here aims to record and preserve a key part of that culture. It stands out equally as a memorial volume for John Landgraf, who lived in Jerusalem from 1965 to 1980, dedicating himself to archaeology, ethnography, and social work."-- Publisher, page four of cover
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Map: Historic Palestine in 1967
- Map: Distribution of potters' sites, most of them in the Palestinian Territories, in 1977
- End of a tradition: Palestine's women potters by John Landgraf
- Origin and reintroduction of handmade cooking pots and water storage jars in Palestine
- Modern context and techniques of the women potters
- Women potters in ten West Bank villages
- Dura, Fuqeiqis and Beit Awwa
- Beit Anan
- Al Jib
- Beitunia
- Excursus: Handmade Pottery of the Peasant Women from Ramallah and Surroundings [1914]
- Sinjil
- Qusra
- Qabalan
- KafralLabad
- Ya'bad
- Survival of a tradition: Palestine's male potters by Owen Rye
- Overview of the tradition
- Male potters at eight centers in Palestine
- Ramallah (including al Ramla, Jericho, and Jordan)
- Irtah
- Jaba'
- Nazareth
- Haifa
- Akka (Acre)
- Hebron
- Gaza
- Reasons for the decline in the number of Palestinian male potters
- Change and stability in traditions
- Works cited
- Appendixes
- Toponyms revised / Jean-Baptiste Humbert
- Potters' workshops
- Potters' names / John Landgraf
- Glossary of technical terms / Owen Rye
- Palestinian census figures for 1967 and 1997.
- Notes:
- A fieldwork study, 1972-1980.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-268).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789042947085
- 904294708X
- OCLC:
- 1285275400
- Publisher Number:
- 99992200209
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