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Diana,
If you do not mind dated material, I researched Spanish and Mexican Majolica
to examine a possible connection between historical events and empirical
changes in artistic "traditions" defined by John Goggin and other scholars. When
you review the color and design clusters associated with the traditions
against the decline of one and rise of another, certain historical movements seem
to coincide. My thesis explored the possibility that market pressures
coincident with the wax and wane of government control through war and independence
resulted in later Majolica tradition emergences. Goggin defined the Medieval
and Chinese Popular Traditions as Spanish pottery guild exports to Mexico
that led to the Italian Talavera Tradition. But he did not carry on the
analysis to look at the effects of European wars, ecomomic recession, and
independence at the end of the 18th century. I tested the hypothesis through study of
the beginning and ending date of Spanish Mexican sites in Northern New Spain
between 1690 and 1850. This led me to note changes in color and design schemes
on Majolica pottery from those times. This led me to create the "Aranama
Tradition" as an outgrowth of the Italian Talavera Tradition that spanned 1780
through the Mexican War (and continued in Mexico through the present). I
proposed "puebla phases" for the cluster of historical events that seemed to
coincide with the tradition changes.
I find the Aranama Tradition truly fascinating, as the potters in Mexico
produced this colorful polychrome tradition in sufficient quantities to compete
with British and French mass produced ceramics that flooded the California
markets after Mexican Independence in 1821.
My typology has been in constant use out here in California over the past
thirty-years, as Coyote Press sells copies at various conferences.
Unfortunately, few publishers in 1975 were interested in historical archaeology and my
thesis collected did not distribute to the East Coast. Kathleen Deagan created
her own typology and re-named many of the types I identified in my
publications out here on the West Coast (lending to confusion in the literature).
Here is the citation:
Ronald V. May, 1975, "Mexican Majolica in Northern New Spain: A Model for
Interpreting Ceramic Change." A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of San Diego
State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Arts in Anthropology.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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Hi Everyone:
I am interested in finding studies that use ceramics from archaeological
sites in interesting ways. If you have a favorite, would you please send me
its reference?
Thanks a lot!
All best, Diana
Diana diZerega Wall
Department of Anthropology
The City College of New York
New York, NY 10031
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I/it get rejected every time I try :-(
Hi Everyone:
I am interested in finding studies that use ceramics from archaeological
sites in interesting ways. If you have a favorite, would you please send me
its reference?
Thanks a lot!
All best, Diana
Diana diZerega Wall
Department of Anthropology
The City College of New York
New York, NY 10031
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