The Children of the Fire

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Fire is an important part of ceramic production; nevertheless, it is usually taken for granted when studying and analyzing ceramics. Ethnoarchaeology, experimentation, and sensory archaeology allowed us to grasp a better understanding of the relationships entangled between fire-using potter and pottery. An extensive compilation of myths, sayings, and words in p’urhé allow us to identify ways of thinking and therefore ways of making. This paper will show the connections found between the information told to Spaniards and compiled through text and that preserved through traditional knowledge and making. These connections strongly relate makers with their making, imprinting on this last one’s part of the former one’s ways of being.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38483.0