6 Pottery Production and Distribution Among the Kalinga: A Study of Household and Regional Organization and Differentiation Michael W Graves Introduction It is not particularly noteworthy to observe that the role of pot- tery within subsistence economies is often complex and highly varied. Ceramic vessels may be decorated in ways that reflect, as well as affect, social relations on a number of different levels. At the same time, pottery is manufactured for use as a kind of con- tainer, and the uses to which it is put can affect the manner in which it is made and decorated, its constituent components (pri - marily clay and tempering materials), and the organization of household or domestic activities. Ceramics can also play an eco- nomic role, especially when the production and distribution of pottery involves exchange transactions. In each of these domains- placing decoration on a pot, manufacturing pottery, and the dis- tribution of ceramic vessels-we believe there is some kind of sys- tematic articulation between a segment of human organization and the variability we observe in the pottery assemblage. However, in this chapter I want to explore a somewhat more complex ethnoarchaeological issue: the interaction between two ceramic domains, production and exchange, and their associated contexts of human organization. I will demonstrate how similar social processes can produce quite different patterns of ceramic variability across these two domains for the Kalinga of northern Luzon, the Philippines. These differences can be explained by the different roles that production and distribution of pottery assume among the Kalinga and other societies. And while the study I de-