Traditional potters

This book is a path-breaking effort to understand the status and problems of traditional artisans, illustrated by traditional potters, along the social as well as economic parameters and find solutions to their problems along planned developmental as well as educational parameters.

The author, through her field study, has brought out basic facts about the population and residential concentrations of potters, gender ratio and other demographic features; literacy and educational features; occupational continuities and diversi fication, role of women and other occupational features; and the nature and complexities of the potters' market and trade relations.

On this foundation, she formulates a powerful concept of the entitlements and enablements of potters and other similar artisans to enable them to gain control over their market and their economy. While the specificities are about potters of one area, the findings and conclusions are equally appli cable to traditional potters of the whole country as well as artisans in other traditional crafts.

This book is a must for sociologists, developmental planners and organi sers interested in traditional artisans, and to adult educationists, seeking their way to a praxis of nonformal education relevant to traditional artisans and other self-employed producers.