Eighteenth-Century Catawba Women, Pottery-making, Identity, and Nation-building
Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee Knoxville
Dr. Brooke Bauer will discuss eighteenth-century Catawba women’s role as potters, analyzing the
apprentice practice of learning pottery-making skills which positioned women in a male-centered trade economy. Most important to Catawbas, the tradition reinforced identity and nation-building through kinship practices and ties to a homeland.
Presented by the Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies, and the Institute for Indigenous Studies.
