The pottery industries of the Roman East : craft communities and working practices
| 1. Verfasser: |
Murphy, Elizabeth A.,
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Ausgabe: | First edition. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xv, 247 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-00-951460-6 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Imprints page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter One Introduction
- Social History and Labor
- Why Potters?
- The Archaeology of Pottery Workshops
- Ceramic Workshop Studies
- Pottery Studies
- Material Culture Studies of Pottery
- Scope: Defining Ceramic Industries
- Geographic Parameters
- Chronology
- Challenges and Biases
- Chapter Objectives and Organization
- Chapter Two Workshops: Models versus Practice
- Production Organization Models and Alternative Arrangements
- Complicating the Model
- Modelling Resource Procurement
- Complicating the Model: Cultural Taskscapes
- Conclusion
- Chapter Three Process, People, and Working Conditions
- Similar Goods, Divergent Local Processes
- Contextualizing Work Process
- Putting Labor to Production Task
- Seasonality
- Conclusion
- Chapter Four Cultural Practices and Ritual Lives of Potters in the Workshop
- Ceramicist Workgroups
- Who Were These Potters?
- Individuals and Their Profession: Makers and Their Tools
- Ritualized Craft, Ritual Spaces?
- The Afterlives of Workshops: Places of Burial
- Conclusion
- Chapter Five Potting Traditions, Craft Learning, and Product Innovation
- Socially Understanding Traditions
- Tracking Innovation
- Conclusion
- Chapter Six Socially Embedded Technologies and Local Technological Styles
- Kiln Design Variability across the Region
- Identifying Technological Designers
- Conclusion
- Chapter Seven Internal Social Dynamics of Industry Clusters: Cooperation and Competition
- Nucleated Workshops in the Eastern Provinces
- Identifying Collaborative Practices within Nucleated Workshops
- Conflict and Competition
- Mediation Measures
- Conclusion.
- Chapter Eight Urban Industry, Topographies, and Community Relations
- Naming Conventions and Local Industry Topographies
- Workshop Structures: Architectural Vernacular?
- Industry Status and Visibility
- Location of Production: Tension between Push-and-Pull Factors
- Pull Factors: Urban Populations as Regular Consumers
- Push Factors Influencing Location of Production
- Urban Neighborly Relations
- Shifting Industrial Cityscapes over Time: Long-Term Effects of Push-and-Pull Factors
- Late Antique Cities and Urban Industry
- Conclusion
- Chapter Nine Crafting Communities: Some Final Thoughts on the Social Experience of Roman Workshops
- Tracing Relationships
- Final Note
- Glossary of Specialized Potting Terms
- Bibliography
- Index.
