CERAMICS PROCESSING – THE ISSUE OF SPECIALIZATION AND DIVISION OF MATERIALS RESEARCH
Keywords:
ceramic technology, ethnoarchaeology, gender labor division, age labor division, knowledge transfer, specialization, professionalization.Abstract
Studying ceramic production cannot be separated from studying and perceiving the circumstances in which it is performed. Beside the natural factors that have an influence on those circumstances, social factors, which also include the issues of the specialization of works and the gender and age labor division, are certainly of great importance as well. It is not a rarity that, particularly in the literature of an older date, the knowledge of the gender labor division and specialization in the ceramic production of a local community, originating from ethnological records, is uncritically ascribed to all the other environments in which certain techniques, i.e. technological processes, were used in the past. Ethnoarchaeological research studies of the ceramic technology have, however, shown that it is impossible to give simple and unambiguous answers to these questions. This paper is dedicated to finding out answers to the questions whether vessels made without a mechanical device are always produced by women, and those modelled on the potter’s wheel – by men. Are there opposite cases, too, and why? Is a ceramic vessel the result of the work done by only one person or there are several of them participating in the...
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Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research, 8(2),
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Gamo of Southwest Ethiopia. Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry,
Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press.
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veщite i specializaciяta na truda v selskite obщnosti na Balkanite).
Godišnik na Sofiйskiя universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“, 227-278.
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Pottery-making Tradition. Interpreting Ceramics, 203-215.
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Muzej Mimara.
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en el estudio de la cerámica prehistórica, Tesina, Facultat de Filosofia
y Lletres, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
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tehnologije keramike. Stidija slučaja Zlakusa. Doktorska disertacija,
Filozofski fakultet Beograd, Beograd.
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Ethnoarchaeological Research Project in Serbia. Ethnoarchaeology:
Current Research and Field Methods, Conference Proceedings, Rome,
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Srbiji / Three facets of traditional pottery making in Serbia. Beograd:
Narodni muzej u Beogradu.
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orígenes europeos como potencial etnoarqueológico. Actas del I
congreso internacional sobre estudios cerámicos: homenaje a la dra.
Mercedes Vegas: Cádiz, 1 al 5 de noviembre de 2010, 393-423.
20. Đorđević, B. (2016). Traditional Bread-Baking Pan Making –
Ethnoarchaeology and Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage.
Proceedings of the Conference The Intangible Elements of Culture in
Ethnoarchaeological research, 313-320.
21. Đorđević, B., Nikolov, G. (2013). Bread-baking Pan (crepulja/crepna)
from Neolithic to Present in South-East Europe. The Beginning of
Ethnoarchaeological Cooperation in the Region. Ethnoarchaeology
Current Research and Field Methods, Conference Proceedings, Rome,
Italy, 13th–14th May 2010, 53-57.
22. Đorđević, B., Zlatković, D. (2014). Traditional technology and its
variations applied in making bread-baking pans in the Old Mountain
(Serbia). Traditional Pottery Making from the Ethnoarchaeological
Point of View.Scientific Research and Safeguarding of Intangible
Heritage. Proceedings of the First International Conference, Belgrade
2011, 32-41.
23. Efstratiou, N. (1992). Production and distribution of a ceramic type in
Highland Rhodope: an ethnoarchaeological study. Origini. Preistoria e
protostoria delle civiltà antiche XVI, 311-327.
24. Efstratiou, N. (2014) Ceramic ethnoarchaeological research in the
Balkans: the case of the Rhodope Mountains. Traditional Pottery
Making from the Ethnoarchaeological Point of View. Scientific
Research and Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage, 20-31.
25. Foster, G. M. (1959). The potter’s wheel: an analysis of idea and
artefact in invention, Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 15, 99-
118.
26. González Urquijo J., Ibáñez Estévez, J. J., Zapata Peña, L., i Peña
Chocarro, L. (2001). Estudio etnoarqueologico sobre la cerámicaGzaua
(Marruecos). Técnica y contexto social de un artesanado arcaico.
Trabajos de prehistoria, 58(1), 5-27.
27. Gosselain, O. P. (2008). Thoughts and Adjustments in the Potter’s
Backyard. Breaking the Lould: Challenging the Past through Pottery,
67-79.
28. Grbić, M. (1954). A Neolithic Statuette from Bečej in Banat.
Archaeologica Iugoslavica I, 15-18.
29. Hodder, I. (1981). Pottery, Production and Use: A Theoretical
Discussion. Production and Distribution: a ceramic Viewpoint, 215-
220.
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XIII, 485-497.
31. King, Ch. (1966). Pottery, People at Work. London and Glasgow:
Blackie.
32. Klajn, I., Šipka, M. (2006). Veliki rečnik stranih reči i izraza. Novi
Sad: Prometej.
33. Kramer, C. (1985). Ceramic ethnoarchaeology. Annual Review of
Anthropology 14, 77-102.
34. Kramer, C. (1997). Pottery in Rajaasthan: ethnoarchaeology in two
Indian cities. Washington DC – London: Smithsonian Institution Press.
35. London, G. A. (1991). Standardization and variation in the work of
craft specialists, Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology, 182-204.
36. Nangendo, S. M. (1996). Pottery Taboos and Symbolism in Bukusu
Society. Western Kenya, African Study Monographs, 17(2), 69-84.
37. Nikolov, G., (2014). Constructive, reconstructive ethnology
opportunity for a dynamic understanding of folk pottery. Traditional
Pottery Making from the Ethnoarchaeological Point of View.Scientific
Research and Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage. Proceedings of the
First International Conference, Belgrade 2011, ed.B. Đorđević,
Belgrade: National Museum in Belgrade.
38. Orton C., Tyers, P., Vince, A. (1997). La cerámica en arqueología.
Barcelona: Critica.
39. Ovčarov, D. (2010). Hudožestvenata keramika v bьlgarskite zemi.
Sofiя: Nacionalen muzeй na bьlgarskata kniga i poligrafiя.
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Cadernos de Olaria 1, Barcelos: Camara Municipal de Barcelos, Museu
de Olaris.
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Jadraque. Guadalajara: AACHE.
42. Peruničić, B. (1936). Prilozi proučavanju naše narodne keramike.
Beograd: Etnografski muzej u Beogradu.
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Review of Anthropology, 21, 491-516.
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Cortaillod-Lagozza populations. Man, 6(3), 341-352.
45. Psaropoulou, B. (n.d.) Last Potters of the East Aegean. Nauplion:
Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation.
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Σημαντηράκης, Ν., Θραψανό: χωριό των αγγειοπλαστών, Αθήνα:
Δημοτική Επιχείρηοη Ανάπτυξης Θραψανού.
47. Petrović, P. Ž. (1936). Prilozi proučavanju naše narodne keramike.
Beograd: Etnografski muzej u Beogradu.
48. Popović, C. Đ. (1957). Lončarsto u Bosni i Hercegovini II, Glasnik
Zemalјskog muzeja u Sarajevu (Etnologija).
49. Popović, C., Đ. (1960). Neki zadaci i problemi u proučavanju narodnog
lončarstva. Etnološki pregled, 2, Beograd.
50. Rajković, S. (1956). Lončarstvo zapadne Hercegovine. Mostar:
Zavičajni muzej Hercegovine.
51. Radić, Z. (2016). Tradicijsko lončarstvo ručnog kola u Erveniku.
Knin: Kninski muzej.
52. Ramos Perez, H. (1976). La cerámica popularde Zamora. Zamora:
Ceramicas vivas.
53. Randić, M. (2014). Ethnological researches of pottery-making in
Croatia, Traditional Pottery Making from the Ethnoarchaeological
Point of ViewScientific Research and Safeguarding of Intangible
Heritage. Proceedings of the First International Conference, Belgrade
2011, ed.B. Đorđević, Belgrade: National Museum in Belgrade, 82-91.
54. Romero, A. Cabasa S. (1999). La tinajería tradicional en la cerámica
española. Barcelona: Ediciones CEAC.
55. Romero, A., Cabasa, S. (2009). Tinajeria tradicional española.
Barcelona:EdicionesBlume.
56. Sempere, E. (1982). Rutas a los Alfares, Barcelona: España-Portugal.
57. Stark, M. (2003). Current Issues in Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology, Journal
of Archaeological Research, 11 (3), 193-242.
58. Tames, R. (2001). Josiah Wedgwood. An Illustrated life of Josiah
Wedgwood 1730-1795. Shire: Shire Publications Ltd.
59. Tomić, P. (1983). Grnčarstvo u Srbiji. Beograd: Etnografski muzej u
Beogradu.
60. Vossen, R., Seseña, N., i Köpne, W. (1980). Guia de los Alfareros de
España. Madrid.
61. Vuković, J. (2013). Ženska tehnologija: identitet neolitskih majstora–
grnčara. Etnoantropološki problemi, 8(1), 295-316.
62. Filipović, M. (1951). Ženska keramika kod balkanskih naroda.
Beograd: Etnografski institut.
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