"A compelling, comprehensive description and analysis of the traditions, socioeconomic parameters, and ceramic styles found in a contemporary pottery-making community located in an understudied region of Latin America. The author s impressive documentation of the cultural and economic changes occurring in La Chamba, Colombia, provide an especially valuable assessment useful to students of anthropology, craft technology, economics, history, gender studies, art history, and cultural dynamics, as well as ceramic studies."--Charles C. Kolb, National Endowment for the...