Envious Pots: Affects and Pottery Making in Andean Colombia

The Diane Wolfe Lecture
Part of the Gardiner Signature Lecture Series
Speaker: Dr. Daniela Castellanos Montes, Assistant Professor, ICESI University, Colombia
On November 23, 2023, Dr. Daniela Castellanos Montes of ICESI University in Colombia explored the concept of envy as a relational dynamic between people and clay objects. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork led within a rural community of potters in Andean Colombia, Dr. Castellanos Montes examined emotions in pottery making, focusing on the entanglement between humans and materials.