The Arctic Cooking Pot: Why Was It Adopted?
ABSTRACT Cross‐culturally, clay cooking pots are correlated with societies situated in warm and dry climates and reliant on foods that benefit from prolonged moist cooking. Neither of these conditions, however, characterized the aboriginal coastal Arctic, where clay cooking containers were produced...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01136.x 2024-09-09T19:20:22+00:00 The Arctic Cooking Pot: Why Was It Adopted? Harry, Karen Frink, Liam 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01136.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1548-1433.2009.01136.x https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01136.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor American Anthropologist volume 111, issue 3, page 330-343 ISSN 0002-7294 1548-1433 journal-article 2009 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01136.x 2024-07-25T04:22:08Z ABSTRACT Cross‐culturally, clay cooking pots are correlated with societies situated in warm and dry climates and reliant on foods that benefit from prolonged moist cooking. Neither of these conditions, however, characterized the aboriginal coastal Arctic, where clay cooking containers were produced and used for more than 2,500 years. We explore the factors that encouraged pottery use in the Arctic and conclude that the adoption of cooking pots resulted from the interplay of social and functional factors. We propose that it was adopted (1) to meet the needs of socially constructed preferences for cooked foods and (2) to overcome specific problems associated with other cooking methods within the local social and environmental context. We demonstrate the importance of adopting an integrated perspective in the study of technology—one that considers how cultural values and social practices interact with environmental and economic factors to shape technological decisions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Wiley Online Library Arctic American Anthropologist 111 3 330 343 |
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ABSTRACT Cross‐culturally, clay cooking pots are correlated with societies situated in warm and dry climates and reliant on foods that benefit from prolonged moist cooking. Neither of these conditions, however, characterized the aboriginal coastal Arctic, where clay cooking containers were produced and used for more than 2,500 years. We explore the factors that encouraged pottery use in the Arctic and conclude that the adoption of cooking pots resulted from the interplay of social and functional factors. We propose that it was adopted (1) to meet the needs of socially constructed preferences for cooked foods and (2) to overcome specific problems associated with other cooking methods within the local social and environmental context. We demonstrate the importance of adopting an integrated perspective in the study of technology—one that considers how cultural values and social practices interact with environmental and economic factors to shape technological decisions. |
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