ABSTRACT
Ethnoarchaeological methods, as applied to the production of ancient ceramics, have three stated goals: first, to completely describe specific production systems. Second, to explain why those historically specific systems have developed and changed as they have and third, to identify and explain cross-cultural regularities and variability in production systems". The danger, however, of ethnography-based classifications seems to be the temptation to fuse etic and emic categories and labels. For MF, interactions with pottery are both personally and financially motivated as she is by calling a potter who, for a portion of her livelihood, makes reproductions of colonial pots. For the archaeologist, a waster dump can be a wealth of information about potters' techniques, technologies and skill levels. At several points during the interview, MF referenced the Teutonic tendency toward order and organization exhibited by the Moravians of Salem. Moravians are characterized by MF as being "fastidious" and as perfectionists.
