At home on the waves : human habitation of the sea from the mesolithic to today / edited by Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

King, Tanya J., editor.

Robinson, Gary, 1966- editor.

Series:

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 24.

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ocean and civilization.

Maritime anthropology.

Seafaring life.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 372 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2019.

Contents:

List of illustrations

List of tables

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: at sea in the twenty-first century / Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson

Moving beyond the "scape" to being in the (watery) world, wherever / Hannah Cobb and Jesse Ransley

Working grounds, producing places and becoming at home at sea / Penny McCall Howard

Re-examining brazilian middens in light of new information about seafaring technology / Daniela Klokler and MaDu Gaspar

Seamless archaeology: the use of archaeology in the study of seascapes

Caroline wickham-jones

Moving along: wayfinding, following and non-verbal communication across the frozen seascape of east greenland / Sophie Cacilie Elixhauser

Drawing gestures: body movement in perceiving and communicating submerged landscapes / Cristian Simonetti

Exploration of a buried seascape: the cultural maritime landscapes of tremadoc bay / Gary Robinson

Fish traps of the crocodile islands: windows on another world / Bentley James

A community-based approach to documenting and interpreting the cultural seascapes of the recherche archipelago, western australia / David Guilfoyle, Ross Anderson, Ron "Doc" Reynolds, and Tom Kimber

Recognized seaworthy: resistance and transformation among icelandic fisherwomen / Margaret Willson and Helga Tryggvadottir

"It is windier nowadays": coastal livelihoods and seascape-making in qeqertarsuaq, west greenland / Pelle Tejsner

Home-making on land and sea in the archipelagic philippines / Olivia Swift

Fishing for food and fun: how fishing practices mediate physical and discursive relationships with the sea in carteret county, north carolina, usa / Noelle Boucquey and Lisa Campbell

Sea-nomads: mobile maritime populations of southeast asia / Natasha Stacey and Eddie Allison

Formal and informal territoriality in ocean management / Tanya J. King

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: At home on the waves

ISBN:

9781789201420

178920142X

OCLC:

1084353888

Publisher Number:

99980200625