ABSTRACT

This article examines the pottery technological styles of the Oromo, the Yem and the Dawro ethnolinguistic groups in southwestern Ethiopia. It provides a comparative examination of the technological choices each group makes at different stages of pottery production, which, in turn, produce and reproduce their group identities. In southwestern Ethiopia, pottery-making lies within the domain of women, with social restrictions prohibiting male involvement. Potters are marginalised and transmit pottery-making knowledge and skills through learning networks, mainly between immediate family members. Each pottery-making community practises distinct technological traditions and styles, but all communities are now acquiring new technological skills in response to developing socio-economic dynamics. Examination of the incorporation of new elements into pottery-making due to both socio-economic changes at the local level and global phenomena may provide clues about the changing dynamics of the craft in the recent and more distant past.

摘要

本文研究了埃塞俄比亚西南部的奥罗莫人，耶姆人和达罗人种语言群体的陶器技术风格。它提供了对每个小组在陶艺生产的不同阶段做出的技术选择的比较研究，这些技术反过来又可以生产和复制他们的小组身份。在埃塞俄比亚西南部，制陶业属于妇女的范畴，社会限制禁止男性参与。陶工被边缘化，主要通过直系亲属之间的学习网络传播陶艺知识和技能。每个制陶社区实践独特的技术传统和风格，但是所有社区现在都在因应不断发展的社会经济动态而获得新的技术技能。