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23
75,000 people attended the 1979 Nambassa festival. Colin Broadley and Judith Jones, eds,
Nambassa: A New Direction, Wellington, 1979.
24
Dominick Cavallo, 'Review: The Hippies and American Values, by Timothy Miller', The Journal of
American History, 79, 2, 2001, p.743.
25
June Reay, 16 December 2006, OH 133 and Jane McCallum, 22 November 2006, OH 127,
interview with Vic Evans, Nelson Pottery Club Members, Oral History, Nelson Provincial Museum.
26 Nicholas Brandon, 'Nicholas Brandon', New Zealand Potter, 19, 1 1977, p.22.
27
ibid.
28 ibid.
29
Oscar Wilde may have disagreed with this sentiment when he said. ‘Only the shallow know
themselves’. See Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde Quotes 2014; available at:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3565.Oscar_Wilde?page=5 (8 April 2014).
30 Brandon, p.22.
31
Karen Patterson, Nelson Ceramics, oral history interviews, Nelson Provincial Museum: John and
Kathleen, 17 September 1984, OH 16. See also Julie Warren, Clay: The Pottery Industry – 150 Years
in Nelson, Nelson, 1991, p.27.
32 John Ing, 'Notes from a Pokororo Pottery', New Zealand Potter, 22, 2 Spring, 1980, p.27.
33
ibid., p.28.
34 Helen Mason, 'Helen Mason Looks Back', New Zealand Potter, 19, 1 1977, p.28.
35
ibid.
36
Helen Mason, Helen Mason’s Scrapbook: Fifty Years as a Backyard Potter, a Memoir, 2nd edn,
Waipukurau, 2005, p.41.
37
Margaret Harris, 'Freedom to Live Where You Want', New Zealand Potter, 14, 1 Autumn, 1972, p.7.
One in a series of articles in this issue discussing rural living.

10. Technology and Work?

1 Julie Warren, Clay: The Pottery Industry – 150 Years in Nelson, Nelson, 1991, p.33.
2
Jane McCallum, interviewed by the author 22 November 2006. The ‘Betty Crocker’ brand was a
ready-made cake mix.
3
Richard Sennett, The Craftsman, New Haven, 2008, p.81. Sennett’s comments, written in 2008,
demonstrate the enduring difficulty craftspeople have with technology. In a review of Sennett’s book,
the potter Emmanuel Cooper wrote that the gender-specific title suggested that the author was calling
for a return to past values. See Emmanuel Cooper, 'Book Review: The Craftsman by Richard
Sennett', The Journal of Modern Craft, 1, 3, 2008, p.435.
4
Reyner Banham, 'Sparks from a Plastic Anvil: The Craftsman in Technology', in The Journal of
Modern Craft March, 2008, p.144.
5
Peter McCleary, 'An Interpretation of Technology', Journal of Architectural Education, 37, 2, 1983,
p.2.
6
Lewis Mumford, Art and Technics, New York, 1952, p.16.
7
ibid., p.44.
8
ibid., p.42.
9
Museum of Wellington City & Sea, Summer News, Wellington, Issue 17, 2008, p.1.
10
Mumford, pp.8-11.
11
ibid., p.12.
12
Harry Davis, 'Potters, Zombies and Others', Ceramics Monthly, September, 33, 7 1985, p.36.
13
May Davis, May, Nelson, 1990, p.21.
14
Gerald Wakely, 'Proceedings of the First Study-Conference on the Promotion of Crafts in New
Zealand', Paper Presented at the First Study-Conference on the Promotion of Crafts in New Zealand,
The Victoria University Regional Council of Adult Education, 29th – 31st August 1963, pp.23-4. As the
name suggests, this was the first conference on studio craft.
15
Harry Davis, 'Hand Craft Pottery, Whence and Whither', New Zealand Potter, 28, 1 28:1, 1986,
p.30. Davis’ italics.
16
Kerr Inkson, 'The Craft Ideal and the Integration of Work: A Study of Potters', Human Relations, 40,
3, 1987, pp.163-76. See also, Kerr Inkson, 'Working Paper No 16, Craftsmanship and Job
Satisfaction: A Study of Potters', 1985.
17
C. W. Mills, White Collar; the American Middle Classes, Oxford, 1951, p.220.
18
Inkson, 'The Craft Ideal and the Integration of Work: A Study of Potters', pp.164-5.
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