Volume 29 / Number 3
1987
Special Edition: Crafts of India
On The Cover: The finishing touches are made to a statue produced by the traditional lost wax process in a casting workshop in Chamba, India. Photo by Terry J. Reedy
Vol. 29 / No. 3
By: Ward Goodenough and Stephen D. Thomas
Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific: A Search for a Pattern
Do people learn and mentally organize their experience in similar ways in spite of differences in their cultures and in […]
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By: David Conwell
On Ostrich Eggs and Libyans: Traces of a Bronze Age People from Bates' Island, Egypt
(The Libyans] schemed to plot rebellion a second time, to finish their lifetime on the frontier of Egypt. They gathered […]
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Vol. 29 / No. 3
By: David Conwell
Ostrich Eggs
The exotic and easily recognized ostrich egg is found surprisingly often by archaeologists working all around the Mediterranean. Evidence for […]
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By: David O'Connor
Egyptians and Libyans in the New Kingdom: An Interpretation
For Classical authors such as Herodotus (ca. 450 B.C.), all the various independent people inhabiting the huge land mass extending […]
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By: Lee Horne
Artisans and Archaeologists: A Special Section on the Study of Crafts in India
Observing a skilled artisan at work brings to the viewer an understanding that is bath aesthetic and intellectual, and that […]
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By: Lee Horne
The Brasscasters of Dariapur, West Bengal: Artisans in a Changing World
In the spring of 1988, Sri Haradhan Karmakar (Figs. 1,2), a brasscaster from West Bengal, came to Philadelphia to participate […]
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Vol. 29 / No. 3
By: Lee Horne
Brasscasting in Dariapur
The following description briefly outlines the stages of dhokra brass-casting as carried out by Dariapuri artisans today. Variations in materials […]
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By: Rita P. Wright
Traditional Potters of India: Ethnoarchaeological Observations in America
We Stood on a hillside surveying the landscape for just the “right spot”. M. Palaniappan preferred the low, more level […]
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By: Chandra L. Reedy
Modern Statues and Traditional Methods: A Casting Workshop in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, Northwest India
Northwest India is renowned among art historians for the Buddhist and Hindu copper alloy statues produced there during the medieval […]
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By: A. John Gwinnett and Leonard Gorelick
The Change from Stone Drills to Copper Drills in Mesopotamia: An Experimental Perspective
An important craft in ancient Mesopotamia was that of the lapidary—the maker of stone beads, amulets, figurines, small vessels and […]
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