A Critical Survey of the Growth, Decline, and Sustainability of Traditional Pottery Practice among the Igbo of South Eastern Nigeria
A Critical Survey of the Growth, Decline, and Sustainability of Traditional Pottery Practice among the Igbo of South Eastern Nigeria
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对尼日利亚东南部伊博人传统陶器实践的增长、衰落和可持续性的批判性调查
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10.2752/174967814x13990281228288
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2014
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Vincent Egwu Ali
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Vincent Egwu Ali
在伊博兰主要的妇女制陶社区进行的民族志研究证明，由于西方技术和教育的引进，伊博传统制陶正在衰落，在某些地区甚至已经灭绝。一些作家还强调，尽管现代化的负面影响，陶器传统仍然在伊博兰的一些地区继续存在，因为它在传统社会中的作用。这项研究，进行了一个重要的调查，在伊博陶器蓬勃发展的程度和时期，当它开始下降，由于现代的影响，以及由于它在传统的伊博社会中发挥的作用，其生存的贡献。这项研究涉及深入采访研究地区（Afikpo和Ishiagu）的女性陶艺家，以及对她们现在和过去陶艺实践的批判性观察。本研究证实，现代性的影响在1950年代开始感受到，但其影响是非常渐进的，使陶器传统在1970年代达到顶峰。实际下降时期是20世纪80年代，即尼日利亚殖民统治结束后约20年。在20世纪80年代，伊博人接受了西方文化，用现代容器充斥市场，建立了现代陶器工业，最终导致传统陶器在20世纪80年代末衰落。然而，陶器在传统伊格博社会中的社会、宗教和经济作用被认为是陶器在那些尽管受到现代化的负面影响但仍继续生产的社区中得以生存的因素之一。
Abstract Ethnographic studies conducted in major women's pottery communities in Igboland have proved that Igbo traditional pottery is on the decline and has even gone into extinction in some areas as a result of the introduction of Western technology and education. Some writers have also stressed that despite the negative influence of modernity, the pottery tradition has continued in some parts of Igboland because of its role in traditional society. This study, undertakes a critical survey of the extent and period in which Igbo pottery flourished, when it began to decline as a result of modern influences, and the contribution to its survival due to the role it plays in traditional Igbo society. The study involved in-depth interviews with women potters in the study areas (Afikpo and Ishiagu) as well as critical observations of their present and past pottery practices. The study has established the fact that the influence of modernity started to be felt in the 1950s, but its effect was very gradual, enabling the pottery tradition to reach its peak in 1970s. The actual period of decline was the 1980s, about twenty years after the end of colonial administration in Nigeria. In the 1980s the Igbo embraced Western culture, flooded the market with modern containers and established modern pottery industries, which eventually led to the decline of traditional pottery in late 1980s. However, the social, religious and economic roles of pottery in traditional Igbo society have been identified as among the factors responsible for its survival in those communities that have continued production in spite of the negative effects of modernization.