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Creole Clay : Heritage Ceramics in the Contemporary Caribbean /

In this book, Patricia Fay tells the history of the Anglophone Caribbean by documenting the material culture in the form of locally made earthenware pots--everyday objects that have been central to domestic life dating from precolonial to postcolonial times. Over the course of twenty years and multi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Fay, Patricia J. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2017.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction: old pots make good soup
  • Saint Lucia: Tout moun ki ka fe Kannawi
  • Shaping culture: traditional forms
  • Process: production methods in Choiseul
  • Provenance: creating context in Saint Lucia
  • Creole clay: cultural legacies in Caribbean ceramics
  • Nevis and Antigua: a tale of two villages
  • Jamaica: Spanish town Yabbas and the Kingston walkaround style
  • Barbados: the potters of Chalky Mount
  • Trinidad and Guyana: indians in the Americas
  • Conclusion: coalpots and cruise ships.