TY - BOOK ID - 136813534 TI - The evolution of ceramic production organization in a Maya community PY - 2014 SN - 1607323141 9781492012665 1492012661 9781492012641 1492012645 9781607323143 9781607323136 1607323133 PB - Boulder, CO University Press of Colorado DB - UniCat KW - Social change KW - Pottery industry KW - Mayas KW - Maya pottery KW - Social conditions. KW - Ticul (Mexico) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136813534 AB - "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. "-- ER -