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