摘要：This study uses ‘operational sequence analysis’ to
examine the technical processes, methods and strategies
that Korean potters have used in the adoption and
rejection of new pottery technologies. We contend that the
introduction of new technical elements weakens the
relationship between the traditional agents of the pottery-
making process. In particular, potters are compromising
traditional techniques by using modern technology. On the
one hand, potters still use traditional tools such as the
bottom flattener, the wooden paddle, the anvil and cloth
finishing strips while at the same time using improved
kilns and electronic potters’ wheels. This compromise has
arisen because of changes in technical knowledge about
making pottery which have resulted in this synthesis of
traditional and modern methods. Anthropological studies
will explain pottery-making techniques and knowledge
relating to the craft in Korea on both macro and micro
levels.
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