Practising centuries-old techniques that have been passed through generations, African potters craft their wares by hand from terra cotta clay, firing them in the open to create vessels of amazing durability. These pieces embody an immediacy of form and a deceptive simplicity that reflect their makers' deep understanding of material, process and ...
In many parts of Africa marriage involves the making of new pots and funerals the smashing of old. Smashing Pots surveys the role of pottery in traditional and modern Africa, the technologies it calls into play and the extraordinary aesthetic effects it achieves. Nigel Barley shows how pottery is used in cultural thought and how it reflects, in ...
The making and breaking of pots is a central ritual in African society. To smash a pot is to mark the end of something, whether virginity, incest or life itself. In "Smashing Pots", Nigel Barley surveys the role of pottery in traditional and modern Africa, the technologies it calls into play and the extraordinary aesthetic effects it achieves. He ...
This study uses the imported African red slip ware and cooking wares as an index for the later history of an important port on the north-eastern coast of Hispania Tarraconensis. Looking at the 1st and 2nd centuries AD Aquilue presents the ceramic evidence, which at first points to a major Roman town, the outlet for the export of locally produced ...
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