基于近50年的实地调查和反思，玛雅陶艺家的本土知识利用参与理论来描述墨西哥尤卡坦蒂库尔传统玛雅陶艺家的本土知识。在这篇有大量插图的叙述性文章中，迪安·E·阿诺德考察了工匠的知识和技能、他们对自然和社会环境的参与、他们制作工艺所用的原材料，以及他们制作陶器的过程。
继Lambros Malafouris、Tim Ingold和Colin Renfrew之后，Arnold认为陶艺家的本土知识不仅存在于他们的头脑中，还延伸到他们对环境、原材料和陶器制作过程本身的参与，并受到视觉和触觉反馈的反复影响。陶器不仅是一种心理模板的表达，还涉及认知类别、具体肌肉模式的互动，以及这些类别和技能与生产过程的互动。因此，本土知识是思维与物质、思维范畴与行为、认知与感官参与——人与物质能动性相互作用的产物。
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Maya Potters’ Indigenous Knowledge: Cognition, Engagement, and Practice
Based on fieldwork and reflection over a period of almost fifty years, Maya Potters’ Indigenous Knowledge utilizes engagement theory to describe the indigenous knowledge of traditional Maya potters in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico. In this heavily illustrated narrative account, Dean E. Arnold examines craftspeople’s knowledge and skills, their engagement with their natural and social environments, the raw materials they use for their craft, and their process for making pottery.
Following Lambros Malafouris, Tim Ingold, and Colin Renfrew, Arnold argues that potters’ indigenous knowledge is not just in their minds but extends to their engagement with the environment, raw materials, and the pottery-making process itself and is recursively affected by visual and tactile feedback. Pottery is not just an expression of a mental template but also involves the interaction of cognitive categories, embodied muscular patterns, and the engagement of those categories and skills with the production process. Indigenous knowledge is thus a product of the interaction of mind and material, of mental categories and action, and of cognition and sensory engagement—the interaction of both human and material agency.
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