Pottery, Livelihoods, and Landscapes
A Case Study from the Peruvian Andes
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Beschreibung
This book describes the pottery trade activities of the residents of the community of San Bartolomé de los Olleros in Piura, Peru. Based on extensive interviews with potters and traders, it explains why the barter of pots continues to be practiced, and explores how pottery production and exchange practices may now be changing. The book provides a unique and detailed analysis of the interconnections between handicraft production, rural trade networks, and agriculture in an Andean context.
Pots are mainly bartered for food crops within a non-monetary peasant economy distinct from the “conventional” market. This practice is an important food source for pottery traders; thus trader livelihoods are placed at the center of this qualitative study of pottery distribution. Of primary importance are: 1) the decision-making processes surrounding exchange activities, 2) how exchange choices produce distinct spatial patterns, and 3) how the marketing of pots impacts livelihoods.This book describes the pottery trade activities of the residents of the community of San Bartolomé de los Olleros in Piura, Peru. Based on extensive interviews with potters and traders, it explains why the barter of pots continues to be practiced, and explores how pottery production and exchange practices may now be changing. The book provides a unique and detailed analysis of the interconnections between handicraft production, rural trade networks, and agriculture in an Andean context.
Pots are mainly bartered for food crops within a non-monetary peasant economy distinct from the “conventional” market. This practice is an important food source for pottery traders; thus trader livelihoods are placed at the center of this qualitative study of pottery distribution. Of primary importance are: 1) the decision-making processes surrounding exchange activities, 2) how exchange choices produce distinct spatial patterns, and 3) how the marketing of pots impacts livelihoods.Offers a unique detailed description of pottery as a livelihood activity in Northern Peru Includes analysis of handicraft production in relation to the regional geography of agricultural production Based on detailed interviews with potters and pottery traders Provides findings relevant for geography, anthropology, and archeology Presents color maps and photographs of pottery production and exchange Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Martha G. Bell
Themen in »Pottery, Livelihoods, and Landscapes«
pottery production in Peru pottery exchange in the Andes rural livelihoods in Peru spatial patterns the geography of agriculture Barter Piura