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THE FOLK POTTERY-MAKING TRADITION OF GRAND-LEDGE, MICHIGAN: A MATERIAL FOLK CULTURE STUDY.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	THE FOLK POTTERY-MAKING TRADITION OF GRAND-LEDGE, MICHIGAN: A MATERIAL FOLK CULTURE STUDY./
Author:	DEWHURST, CHARLES KURT.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1983,
Description:	267 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 44-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International44-07A.
Subject:	American studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8400550
ISBN:	9798660393891

THE FOLK POTTERY-MAKING TRADITION OF GRAND-LEDGE, MICHIGAN: A MATERIAL FOLK CULTURE STUDY.
DEWHURST, CHARLES KURT.

THE FOLK POTTERY-MAKING TRADITION OF GRAND-LEDGE, MICHIGAN: A MATERIAL FOLK CULTURE STUDY. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1983 - 267 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 44-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 1983.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The purpose of this study has been to rediscover and further document the history and nature of folk pottery production in Grand Ledge, Michigan. This has been undertaken with the hypothesis that the history and nature of pottery can best be fully revealed by examining the interrelationship of the makers of the pottery and the members of the community of Grand Ledge. Conventional historical accounts rely primarily on census materials, business directories, deeds, tax assessment records, newspaper accounts and diaries to reconstruct events. Although these tools played a considerable role in this project, the often overlooked resources--the people--have taken the central role in presenting the folklife of a community that has had a distinctive past in pottery making. This material folk culture study relies upon a synthesis of approaches employed by various disciplines that have addressed material culture study. The collection and documentation of examples of pottery and the many interviews and fieldwork experience serve as the data base for this study. The development of pottery making activity in Grand Ledge is traced from early family potteries of the 1860s to the establishment of industrial potteries of the 1880s. However, the primary focus of this study are the examples of folk pottery made by workers on their own time while at work in the industrial potteries. These creations of lions, turtles, alligators, snakes, dogs, cats, bookends, ashtrays, planters, and assorted items were made for the workers' personal use or as gifts for friends. These items of material folk culture are examined as indicators of community identity and folk expression. Among the findings of this study for understanding the Grand Ledge folk pottery-making experience were the following: (1) The impact of industrialization on folklife and material folk culture has not only been exaggerated but misunderstood. (2) Occupational groups can function as folk groups to cultivate, formulate, and transmit folklore and material folk culture. (3) Material folk culture such as the folk pottery of Grand Ledge provides an indicator of workers' culture. (4) Community response and time can alter the meaning of material folk culture. (5) The study of American material folk culture might best be understood to be the study of material folk culture in America. (6) Objects of material folk culture such as the folk pottery of Grand Ledge can be collected systematically and organized for analysis. In addition to these findings, a number of basic premises are identified as an integrated theoretical framework that can serve as foundation for material culture study.

ISBN: 9798660393891Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122720
American studies.

THE FOLK POTTERY-MAKING TRADITION OF GRAND-LEDGE, MICHIGAN: A MATERIAL FOLK CULTURE STUDY.
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