[INDOLOGY] brick-making communities

[Dominik Wujastyk]

This is gold.  Thank you, Julia.

Dominik

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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
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Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
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University of Alberta, Canada
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 04:23, Shaw, Julia <julia.shaw at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear Dominik
>
> Regarding the ever complicated question of  'continuity', Carla Sinopoli's
> (1991)  paper on ethnoarchaeology in South Asia makes for very useful
> reading.
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> https://www.jstor.org/stable/42928242?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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> Also a more recent paper by Ajay Pratap (2017)
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> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00438243.2017.1334584?journalCode=rwar20
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> In particular, there is an extensive literature on the ethnoarchaeology
> of pottery making communities and traditions in South Asia, and such
> discourse often touches upon brick making and other craft specialisations
> .
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> The following discussion of Carol Kramer's *Pottery in Rajasthan:
> Ethnoarchaeology in Two Indian Cities.*
> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560987405> Washington and
> London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997 discusses some  of the key
> works and issues in this respect, and includes a very good bibliography
> at the end.
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> https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/reviews/22087/kolb-kramer-pottery-rajasthan-ethnoarchaeology-two-indian-cities
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> Best wishes
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> Julia
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> ------------------------------
> *From:* Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 07 November 2018 23:56
> *To:* Shaw, Julia
> *Cc:* Indology
> *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] brick-making communities
>
> Thank you, Julia!  That's very helpful indeed.  It's a literature I'm
> completely unfamiliar with.
>
> Is there a general opinion amongst SA archaeologists about the continuity
> or otherwise of contemporary rural brickmaking with medieval, ancient or
> very ancient brickmaking?
>
> Best,
> Dominik
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>
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> On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 10:56, Shaw, Julia via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Standardised  brick size and type particular to specific periods figure
> prominently as dating tools  in  South Asian excavation reports (too many
> to collate here). For example, tables based on brick size are provided in
> G. Verardi's (2007) Excavations at Gotihawa and Pipri, Kapilabastu
> District, Nepal, Rome, IsIAO.
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> Further, more general  discussion:
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> T.N. Mishra, 1997
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> Ancient Indian bricks and Brick Remains, New Delhi: Harman
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> E.S.N. Reddy, 1998. Evolution of building technology: Early and Medieval
> in Andhradesa, 2 vols. New Delhi. Bharatiya Kala Praashan.
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> M. Pareek, 2002. Early Indian Residential architecture.
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> I'll try to look out some other references on continuities /
> discontinuities between Harappan / early-historic brick technology. There
> is also ethno-archaeological work on brick making communities, again which
> I'll need to look out.
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> Best wishes
>
> Julia
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