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OverviewThe ship transcends the descriptive categories of place, vehicle and artefact; it is a cosmos, which requires its own cosmology. This is the subject matter of this volume, which falls within the broader, flourishing sub-field of maritime anthropology. Specifically, the volume first investigates the dialectic between the sea, the ship and the ship-dweller and shows how traits are exchanged between the three. It then focuses on land-dwellers, their understanding of seaborne existence and their invaluable contribution to the culture of ships. It shows that the romanticised views of life at sea that land-dwellers hold constitute an important aspect of the cosmology of ships and they too need to be considered if the polyvalence of ships is to be fully understood. In order for this cosmology to be written, some of the volume’s contributors have travelled on ships and interviewed mariners, fishermen, boat-builders and boat-dwellers; others have traced the courses of ships in poems, films, philosophical texts, and collective myths of genealogy and heritage. Overall the volume shows where ships can go, and how they are perceived and experienced by those living and travelling in them, watching and waiting for them, dreaming and writing about them, and, finally, what literal and metaphorical crews man them. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chryssanthi PapadopoulouPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Volume: 7 Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138055841ISBN 10: 1138055840 Pages: 197 Publication Date: 17 January 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"List of Figures Preface and Acknowledgements List of Contributors Ship cosmology: an introduction Chryssanthi Papadopoulou Part I Seafaring Ships The boatbuilder, boat building, and the creation of socialities Elena Maragoudaki Seafaring in the Mediterranean: intercultural interaction and loneliness on board Giorgos Tsimouris A woman on a fishing boat: an ethnographic account of wilderness, familiarity and gender relations Brigida Marovelli Dwelling, pollution, and the rhetorical creation of ""nature"" on inland waterways Benjamin O L Bowles Part II Shorefaring Ships Ships in the sky: maritime mythistories in the Pindos Mountains Daniel M. Knight The ship as the symbol of emigration in Greek cinema Eleni N. Mitakou What we think about when we think about ships: a journey through philosophical metaphors Chryssanthi Papadopoulou Shipwreck is everywhere Alicia E. Stallings Afterthoughts John Bennet Index"ReviewsAuthor InformationChryssanthi Papadopoulou is a maritime archaeologist, a Classicist and the Assistant Director of the British School at Athens. She has published on the perception of shipwrecks by maritime archaeologists; underwater sites of various periods; Greek religion; and the archaeology of Classical Athens, and has been excavating shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean since 2005. Her research draws on various disciplines including land and maritime archaeology, philosophy, anthropology and analytical psychology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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