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CASTELLANOS MONTES, Daniela. Hermits and Potters: Towards a Discontinuous History of Pottery-Making in Candelaria Desert. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2024, vol.60, n.2, e2559.  Epub 01-Mayo-2024. ISSN 0486-6525.  https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472x.2559.

This article seeks to contribute to the history of pottery-making in Colombia from a not so familiar point of view: the presence of hermits in the Candelaria Desert. Archaeology and anthropology have focused mainly on pre-Hispanic ceramics and craft transformations. However, we know less about the exchanges and connections between Spain and the New World, and the role religious men played in ceramic technology during colonial times. Firing kilns and oral memory placing the XVI century monks as pioneers of pottery craft are telling of these encounters. Drawing on historical and ethnographic data about the hermits founding Candelaria Monastery and their relationships to local pottery and peasant communities in Ráquira as well as archaeological reports, this text considers pottery and desechos (paths and shards) as traces into a discontinuous history of hermits and potters and their relations made of fractures in time and space.

Palabras clave : Candelaria Desert; agustinos recoletos; hermits; pottery-makers; ceramics; desechos; discontinuous.

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