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Olsen, Nancy Hulbert.

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Potters' choices: The social construction of pottery-making technologies at Acoma and Laguna pueblos, New Mexico.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Potters' choices: The social construction of pottery-making technologies at Acoma and Laguna pueblos, New Mexico./
Author:	Olsen, Nancy Hulbert.
Description:	229 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-09, Section: A, page: 3244.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3058961
ISBN:	0493839712

Potters' choices: The social construction of pottery-making technologies at Acoma and Laguna pueblos, New Mexico.
Olsen, Nancy Hulbert.

Potters' choices: The social construction of pottery-making technologies at Acoma and Laguna pueblos, New Mexico. - 229 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-09, Section: A, page: 3244.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2002.

Pueblo potters of Acoma and Laguna, New Mexico, maintain aesthetic preferences for creating pottery that stand outside Western aesthetics. Rules, expectations, and preferences for building clay mixtures and shaping vessels obtained from centuries of pottery-making, passed from one generation to another, person to person through oral tradition. Current potters create individual variations of their tradition but have consistent threads of value that tie it all together.

ISBN: 0493839712Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Potters' choices: The social construction of pottery-making technologies at Acoma and Laguna pueblos, New Mexico.
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520 $a This study combines ethnological interest in Pueblo aesthetics with concepts from archaeological theory and material science techniques to give prominence to artists' voices and values. The goal is to understand the scales of value and cultural preferences in order to learn what links the spoken preferences and the finished pieces. Through in-depth interviews with 30 potters of Acoma and Laguna, a core set of ranked values emerges from potters' responses that indicate aesthetics socially constructed from past oral tradition. Reverence for the earth, the process, and the clay is the primary aesthetic value voiced by potters.
520 $a To learn whether potters' aesthetic values can be linked with their work, material tests were performed on fired clay samples contributed by seven potters. Tests were run to quantify flexural strength, porosity, grain count by size, and grain count by mineral type. Electron Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) on a scanning electron microscope (SEM), and a NIH computer program designed to analyze images investigated the clay mixtures.
520 $a The study proposes that the sequential relationship of clay construction, vessel construction, and firing as represented by four variables in clay test samples will contain material information that relates to the spoken aesthetic of pottery-making. Whether this proposition is confirmed or denied, the result will be of interest in the study of ethnoaesthetics. Confidence intervals around variable means showed homogeneity across samples in grain size and grain type while porosity and flexural strength are more heterogeneous and may be affected by choices of firing regimes and finishing techniques in form construction. A SAS general linear model (GLM) indicated sufficient variability in the test samples to show that every potter who submitted samples, worked differently. The sample size prohibited establishment of clear relationships between the variables…grain size, grain type, porosity, and flexural strength and the core set of ranked values held by potters.
520 $a With the proposition unconfirmed, the source of social construction in pottery-making technology falls back upon the potters themselves, as agents of change and maintenance. The contribution of this dissertation to ethnoaesthetics is expanding our understanding that aesthetic criteria are based in a culture's worldview which develops through time.*
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