Global clay : themes in world ceramic traditions /
For over 25,000 years, humans across the globe have shaped, decorated, and fired clay. Despite great differences in location and time, universal themes appear in the world's ceramic traditions, including religious influences, human and animal representations, and mortuary pottery. In 'Glob...
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
2017
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- International folk pottery: a brief primer
- Monuments to clay: public markers of craft identity
- The sincerest form of flattery: cross-cultural imitations
- The human image: face jugs and other people pots
- A clay menagerie: the animal world in ceramics
- Idols with feet of clay: ceramics and world religions
- Returning to clay: death and the afterlife
- Living traditions today: continuity, change, revival.
