Detail: Lecture by Louise Allison Cort and Leedom Lefferts

Time - 6:00pm



The potters at work today in villages in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and southern Yunnan province, make either earthenware or stoneware vessels for local and regional markets. These two basic types of ceramics still play important roles in local food preparation and storage and in religious rituals. The field research done by Cort and Lefferts among these communities has looked at how methods of pottery production cut across modern political borders to reveal more fundamental links among language and cultural groups and to hint at patterns of migration and interaction. They will introduce some of the memorable potters we have met and share video clips and images of how pots are made.