{"title":"印度东北部曼尼普尔Oinam村绳纹陶器的生产和交换网络:一个民族考古学的视角","authors":"Oinam Premchand Singh","doi":"10.1080/19442890.2023.2272456","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe production of cord-marked pottery in the village of Oinam, located in the Indian state of Manipur, is practiced by the women potters of the Poumai Nagas, an Indigenous Tibeto-Burman ethnic community. A two-week ethnographic study was conducted in 2021 among the Poumai Nagas to document the dynamics of the production process and oral accounts of the potters and other villagers including residents from the non-pottery-producing Naga villages. While there is decreasing demand for earthen vessels today, the survey's outcome suggests a large exchange network and interaction in the Naga Hills centered on the pottery of Oinam. This network facilitated trade and fostered political and economic alliances among the Naga communities. The study also supports the claim of regional exchange networks in the region in the past and further documents that cord-marked pottery formed a significant trade item.KEYWORDS: Ethnoarchaeologycommunity-based researchcord-marked potteryPoumai NagasNaga HillsManipurNortheast Indiatradetradition AcknowledgmentsI want to thank Bowang Kho and Dr. Nathan Kho from the village of Oinam for their help and support during the research. Thanks are also due to the villagers of Oinam for their keen support during my field survey. I also extend my thanks to the anonymous reviewers for providing their insightful comments on the earlier draft of this paper. 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Production and Exchange Networks of Cord-marked Pottery from Oinam Village in Manipur, Northeast India: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective
ABSTRACTThe production of cord-marked pottery in the village of Oinam, located in the Indian state of Manipur, is practiced by the women potters of the Poumai Nagas, an Indigenous Tibeto-Burman ethnic community. A two-week ethnographic study was conducted in 2021 among the Poumai Nagas to document the dynamics of the production process and oral accounts of the potters and other villagers including residents from the non-pottery-producing Naga villages. While there is decreasing demand for earthen vessels today, the survey's outcome suggests a large exchange network and interaction in the Naga Hills centered on the pottery of Oinam. This network facilitated trade and fostered political and economic alliances among the Naga communities. The study also supports the claim of regional exchange networks in the region in the past and further documents that cord-marked pottery formed a significant trade item.KEYWORDS: Ethnoarchaeologycommunity-based researchcord-marked potteryPoumai NagasNaga HillsManipurNortheast Indiatradetradition AcknowledgmentsI want to thank Bowang Kho and Dr. Nathan Kho from the village of Oinam for their help and support during the research. Thanks are also due to the villagers of Oinam for their keen support during my field survey. I also extend my thanks to the anonymous reviewers for providing their insightful comments on the earlier draft of this paper. All illustrations and photos are by the author unless otherwise noted.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingI received no funding for the research presented in this article.Notes on contributorsOinam Premchand SinghOinam Premchand Singh is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Mangolnganbi College in Manipur, India. He holds a doctorate degree (2023) in archaeology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His Ph.D. work was on megaliths in the Naga Hills of Manipur. He also has a keen interest in visual anthropology and has conducted archaeological and ethnographic surveys in the Naga-inhabited areas of Manipur.
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Ethnoarchaeology, a cross-cultural peer-reviewed journal, focuses on the present position, impact of, and future prospects of ethnoarchaeological and experimental studies approaches to anthropological research. The primary goal of this journal is to provide practitioners with an intellectual platform to showcase and appraise current research and theoretical and methodological directions for the 21st century. Although there has been an exponential increase in ethnoarchaeological and experimental research in the past thirty years, there is little that unifies or defines our subdiscipline. Ethnoarchaeology addresses this need, exploring what distinguishes ethnoarchaeological and experimental approaches, what methods connect practitioners, and what unique suite of research attributes we contribute to the better understanding of the human condition. In addition to research articles, the journal publishes book and other media reviews, periodic theme issues, and position statements by noted scholars.