{"product_id":"the-social-life-of-pots-judith-a-habicht-mauche-9780816553556","title":"The Social Life of Pots: Glaze Wares and Cultural Dynamics in the Southwest, AD 1250-1680","description":"The demographic upheavals that altered the social landscape of the Southwest from the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries forced peoples from diverse backgrounds to literally remake their worlds--transformations in community, identity, and power that are only beginning to be understood through innovations in decorated ceramics. In addition to aesthetic changes that included new color schemes, new painting techniques, alterations in design, and a greater emphasis on iconographic imagery, some of the wares reflect a new production efficiency resulting from more specialized household and community-based industries. Also, they were traded over longer distances and were used more often in public ceremonies than earlier ceramic types. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through the study of glaze-painted pottery, archaeologists are beginning to understand that pots had \"social lives\" in this changing world and that careful reconstruction of the social lives of pots can help us understand the social lives of Puebloan peoples. In this book, fifteen contributors apply a wide range of technological and stylistic analysis techniques to pottery of the Rio Grande and Western Pueblo areas to show what it reveals about inter- and intra-community dynamics, work groups, migration, trade, and ideology in the precontact and early postcontact Puebloan world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The contributors report on research conducted throughout the glaze producing areas of the Southwest and cover the full historical range of glaze ware production. Utilizing a variety of techniques--continued typological analyses, optical petrography, instrumental neutron activation analysis, X-ray microprobe analysis, and inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy--they develop broader frameworks for examining the changing role of these ceramics in social dynamics. By tracing the circulation and exchange of specialized knowledge, raw materials, and the pots themselves via social networks of varying size, they show how glaze ware technology, production, exchange, and reflected a variety of dynamic historical and social processes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through this material evidence, the contributors reveal that technological and aesthetic innovations were deliberately manipulated and disseminated to actively construct \"communities of practice\" that cut across language and settlement groups. \u003ci\u003eThe Social Life of Pots\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wealth of new data from this crucial period of prehistory and is an important baseline for future work in this area. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Patricia Capone \u003cbr\u003e Linda S. Cordell \u003cbr\u003e Suzanne L. Eckert \u003cbr\u003e Thomas R. Fenn \u003cbr\u003e Judith A. Habicht-Mauche \u003cbr\u003e Cynthia L Herhahn \u003cbr\u003e Maren Hopkins \u003cbr\u003e Deborah L. Huntley \u003cbr\u003e Toni S. Laumbach \u003cbr\u003e Kathryn Leonard \u003cbr\u003e Barbara J. Mills \u003cbr\u003e Kit Nelson \u003cbr\u003e Gregson Schachner \u003cbr\u003e Miriam T. Stark \u003cbr\u003e Scott Van Keuren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judith a. Habicht-Mauche\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816553556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816553556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Judith a. Habicht-Mauche","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46721418002687,"sku":"9780816553556","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ce6ebb0b-3d20-4e21-8e94-8de5bb987b58.jpg?v=1742752810","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-social-life-of-pots-judith-a-habicht-mauche-9780816553556","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}