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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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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