Another haul : narrative stewardship and cultural sustainability at the Lewis Family Fishery / Charlie Groth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Groth, Charlie, 1965- author.

Series:

Folklore studies in a multicultural world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lewis Fishery.

Fishers--Social life and customs.

Fishers.

Oral tradition.

Shad fisheries--New Jersey--Lambertville.

Shad fisheries.

Lambertville (N.J.)--Social life and customs.

Lambertville (N.J.).

Manners and customs.

New Jersey--Lambertville.

Genre:

Ethnographies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 248 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]

Summary:

"Lewis Island in Lambertville, New Jersey, is the site of the Lewis Fishery, the last haul seine American shad fishery on the nontidal Delaware River. The Lewis family has fished in the same spot since 1888 and operated the fishery through five generations. The extended Lewis family, its fishery's crew, and the Lambertville community connect with people throughout the region, including environmentalists concerned about the river. It was a Lewis who raised the alarm and helped resurrect a polluted river and its biosphere. While this once exclusively masculine activity is central to the tiny island, today men, women, and children fish, living out a sense of place, belonging, and sustainability. In Another Haul: Narrative Stewardship and Cultural Sustainability at the Lewis Family Fishery, author Charlie Groth highlights the traditional, vernacular, and everyday cultural expressions of the family and crew to understand how community, culture, and the environment intersect. Groth argues there is a system of narrative here that combines verbal activities and everyday activities. On the basis of over two decades of participation and observation, interviews, surveys, and a wide variety of published sources, Groth identifies a phenomenon she calls "narrative stewardship." This narrative system, emphasizing place, community, and commitment, in turn, encourages environmental and cultural stewardship, tradition, and community. Intricate and embedded, the system appears invisible, but careful study unpacks and untangles how people, often unconsciously, foster sustainability. Though an ethnography of an occupation, the volume encourages readers to consider what arises as special about all cultures and what needs to be seen and preserved."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Welcome to the island: the Lewis Fishery in context

Fishing with purpose: the big stories

The captains: between myth and legend, article and anecdote

"Were you there when ...?": microlegends

"It's like I said to so-and-so:" everyday storying

Talking the walk: processional storytelling

Who-all's coming down to the island: belonging at the Lewis Fishery

"A whole 'nother place": narrative stewardship and sense of place

Fishing in the mainstream: anomie, sustainability, and narrative stewardship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Groth, Charlie, 1965- Another haul.

ISBN:

9781496820853

1496820851

9781496820365

1496820363

OCLC:

1038395562