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Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge Cognition, Engagement, and Practice / Dean E. Arnold.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Arnold, Dean E., 1942- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Potters--Mexico--Ticul.
Potters.
Cognition and culture.
Mayas--Material culture--Mexico--Ticul.
Mayas.
Maya pottery--Mexico--Ticul.
Maya pottery.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (283 pages)
Manufacture:
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018
Place of Publication:
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2017]
Summary:
"Based on fieldwork and reflection over a period of fifty years, Arnold utilizes engagement theory to describe the indigenous knowledge of traditional Maya potters in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico. Arnold examines craftspeople's knowledge and skills, their engagement with natural and social environments, the raw materials, and their process"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
How was the data collected?
The potters' engagement with the perceived landscape : ethnoecology
The potters' engagement with raw materials : ethnomineralogy
Engagement with paste preparation
The potters' engagement with vessel forming
The potters' engagement with drying and firing
Ticul Pottery as a distilled landscape/taskscape.
Notes:
Contents note from ECIP table of contents.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781607326564
1607326566
OCLC:
1021028319

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