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1 online resource |
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| Summary |
"In The Evolution of Production Organization in a Maya Community, Dean E. Arnold continues his unique approach to ceramic ethnoarchaeology, tracing the history of potters in Ticul, Yucatan 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 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."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : craft specialization and social complexity -- Methodology : how were the data collected? -- Traditional households I : the Tzum family -- Traditional Households II : six families -- Production units derived from traditional households : cooking pottery -- Entrepreneurial production -- New production units : nontraditional potters -- Attached workshops -- Why did the spatial footprint of production increase? |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Social change -- Mexico -- Ticul.
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Social change. |
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Mexico -- Ticul. |
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Pottery industry -- Mexico -- Ticul.
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Pottery industry. |
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Mayas -- Mexico -- Ticul -- Social conditions.
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Mayas. |
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Social conditions. |
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Maya pottery -- Mexico -- Ticul.
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Ticul (Mexico) -- Social conditions.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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ART -- Ceramics. |
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Maya pottery. |
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Pottery & Ceramics. |
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Mayas -- Social conditions. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Arnold, Dean E., 1942- Evolution of ceramic production organization in a Maya community. Boulder, CO : University Press of Colorado, 2014 (DLC) 2014010473 |
| ISBN |
9781492012665 (electronic book) |
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1492012661 (electronic book) |
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9781492012641 (electronic book) |
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1492012645 (electronic book) |
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9781607323143 (electronic book) |
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1607323141 (electronic book) |
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9781607323136 (hardback) |
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1607323133 |
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