Learning patterns, potter interaction and ceramic style among the Luo of Kenya
Learning patterns, potter interaction and ceramic style among the Luo of Kenya
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肯尼亚洛人的学习模式、陶艺互动和陶瓷风格
DOI:
10.1007/bf01117093
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发表时间:
1987
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Ingrid Herbich
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作者:
Ingrid Herbich
One aspect of an ethno-archaeological study of the pottery system of the Luo people of Kenya is examined. It was discovered that ceramic ‘micro-styles’, distinctive combinations of decorative, formal and technological features characteristic of the different potter communities in a 3000 km2region of western Kenya, are the product of local traditions of manufacture perpetuated by women potters recruited from outside the communities as a result of a patrilocal post-marital residence system. An analysis of the interplay of a mother-in-law/daughter-in-law learning pattern, strong pressures for post-marital resocialization, and processes of potter interaction in the generation of ceramic styles is undertaken and some implications for archaeological attempts to use ceramic patterning to uncover prehistoric social organization are discussed.