The problem of mechanization: Craft, machines, and ‘centering’ in a Japanese <i>Mingei</i> pottery village

Paredes, Alyssa

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“…During this period, the first author engaged in a one-month ceramic training course while concurrently conducting in-depth interviews. This method aligns with recommendations from other researchers in craft studies (Patchett, 2016;O'Connor, 2017;Paredes, 2018). While attending the course, the first author gained comprehensive knowledge of the ceramics making process.…”

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Craft making: Traditional and creative trajectories in Jingdezhen, China

Liu,

2024

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Debates surrounding craft‐making have long centred on the intricate relationship among the head, hand and the materials. While studies have typically differentiated between traditional craft and creative crafts by focusing on specific aspect of the relationship, the co‐existence and interdependence of these elements remained largely unexplored. This research focuses on ceramic craft making in Jingdezhen, where traditional and creative crafts coexist. We employ ethnographic research to comprehend the connotation of traditional and creative crafts, examining them from the perspectives of engagement and detachment. In doing so, this study challenges oversimplified narratives that undervalue the making role of traditional craft and position creative craft as a means for self‐expression and resistance against alienation. Instead, we emphasise the complex relationship between the two, characterised by mutual dependence and mutual detriment. These findings partly stem from the predominance of detachment in traditional crafts, which prioritise the act of making and, to some extent, maximising efficiency. They also relate to the prevalence of engagement in creative craft, where the pursuit of creativity is supported by traditional crafts.

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Craft making: Traditional and creative trajectories in Jingdezhen, China

Liu,

2024

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“…Correspondence, taking Ingold’s (2017: 14) words ‘is the process by which beings or things literally answer to one another overtime’. Therefore the shape of material culture emerges from the rhythmical correspondence of the maker with the rhythms of materials (Boas, 1955; Boivin, 2000; Ingold, 2000, 2013; Leroi-Gourhan, 1993[1964]; Paredes, 2017). Social morphology, as noted by Mauss (1979[1950]), is shaped by rhythms.…”

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The dance of the lines: On the rhythms of making petroglyphs

Vergara

2019

Journal of Material Culture

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One of the main routes that anthropology has taken to study the production of material culture has been the anthropology of techniques. Although different scholars had recognized several problems and elaborated proposals to overcome them, it is still possible to recognize a temporal, spatial and technical conception grounded on a modern ontology that emphasizes a metronomic, abstract and mechanical understanding of them. To overcome this problem, this article proposes introducing the idea of rhythm into the analysis of the production of material culture. In order to do so, the author first elaborates a rhythmical approach to techniques. After which, the article’s focus falls on the rhythms of making petroglyphs in Cuesta Pabellón, a rock art site located in the Limarí Valley, Chile. The results suggest that rock art production is a rhythmical practice that involves a bodily itineration along different gestures, intensities, pauses, disruptions and spatial orientations which resonate and correspond with the way people produce this element of material culture. It is argued that the production of rock art resembles a way of dancing in which the engraver, the emerging line, and the previous lines made by others enter into the process of correspondences in which rhythms play a substantial role.

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Transforming work: A critical literature review on degrowth, post-growth, postcapitalism and craft labor

Vincent,

Brandellero

2023

Journal of Cleaner Production

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The problem of mechanization: Craft, machines, and ‘centering’ in a Japanese Mingei pottery village

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Craft making: Traditional and creative trajectories in Jingdezhen, China

Craft making: Traditional and creative trajectories in Jingdezhen, China

The dance of the lines: On the rhythms of making petroglyphs

Transforming work: A critical literature review on degrowth, post-growth, postcapitalism and craft labor

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