Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest: Response and Continuity of Indigenous Pottery Technology in Central Mexico

CONTENTS......Page 8
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 10
LIST OF MAPS AND TABLE......Page 14
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 16
INTRODUCTION......Page 18
Cultural continuity......Page 26
A note on some terms used......Page 30
Organization of this work......Page 32
Colonies, colonization and colonialism......Page 36
Post-colonial thinking......Page 38
Hybridity and hybridization......Page 39
Archaeology of colonialism......Page 41
The archaeology of colonialism in Mesoamerica......Page 42
The study of material culture......Page 46
Change in material culture......Page 48
A method to study change in material culture......Page 50
Conservatism of potters......Page 53
Change and continuity in pottery-making......Page 56
Summary......Page 58
3 CERAMIC-MAKING BEFORE THE CONQUEST......Page 60
Sources to study late pre-colonial ceramics......Page 64
Organization of ceramic production......Page 66
(a) Clay preparation......Page 68
(b) Vessel forming......Page 71
(c) Vessel surface finishing......Page 74
(d) Firing......Page 80
(e) Decoration......Page 84
(f) Assembling vessel shapes......Page 91
The impact of the Aztec empire on ceramic-making......Page 97
Ceramics as ritual objects and media of literacy......Page 100
Summary......Page 106
4 CERAMIC-MAKING IN EARLY COLONIAL TIMES......Page 108
Sources to study early colonial ceramics......Page 112
Organization of ceramic production......Page 117
(a) Clay preparation......Page 124
(b) Vessel forming......Page 126
(c) Vessel surface finishing......Page 130
(d) Firing......Page 137
(e) Decoration......Page 139
(f) Assembling vessel shapes......Page 145
The impact of the Spanish ceramic technology......Page 157
Ceramics as indices of cultural affiliation in early colonial central Mexico......Page 162
Early colonial ceramics in central Mexico......Page 166
5 CERAMIC-MAKING AT PRESENT......Page 170
Sources to study present-day ceramics......Page 176
Organization of ceramic production......Page 181
(a) Clay preparation......Page 184
(b) Vessel forming......Page 187
(c) Vessel surface finishing......Page 193
(d) Firing......Page 197
(e) Decoration......Page 201
(f) Assembling vessel shapes......Page 205
The environmental impact of ceramic-making......Page 211
Impact of institutional programs to stimulate ceramic-making......Page 214
Present-day ceramics in central Mexico......Page 220
6 CERAMICS, CULTURAL CONTINUITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE......Page 224
The development of ceramic-making during early colonial times......Page 228
The development of ceramic-making at present......Page 232
Ceramics and cultural continuity......Page 234
The role of material culture in the process of colonization......Page 237
Reactions of Mesoamerican potters to the colonization......Page 239
The prospects for ceramic-making......Page 241
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 244
INDEX......Page 262