Records of traditional watercraft from south and west Sri Lanka / Gerhard Kapitän ; prepared for publication by Gerald Grainge in association with Somasiri Devendra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kapitän, Gerhard, 1924-

Contributor:

Grainge, Gerald

Devendra, Somasiri

Nautical Archaeology Society

Series:

BAR international series ; 1931.

NAS monograph series ; no. 2.

BAR international series ; 1931

NAS monograph series ; no. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boats and boating--Sri Lanka.

Boats and boating.

Rafts--Sri Lanka.

Rafts.

Maritime anthropology--Sri Lanka.

Maritime anthropology.

Boatbuilding--Sri Lanka.

Boatbuilding.

Fishing--Sri Lanka.

Fishing.

Sri Lanka--Social life and customs.

Sri Lanka.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 191 pages, [7] folded leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress : Available from Hadrian Books, 2009.

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

Gerhard Kapitan, born in Meissen (Dresden, Germany) on the 23rd April 1924, is a scholar whose main field of study is maritime archaeology and ethnography. This book is Gerhard Kapitan's inventory of traditional Sri Lankan watercraft and his great achievement. Prepared for publication by Gerald Grainge, in association with Somasiri Devendra, the volume represents Kapitan's collection of scale drawings and photographs of traditional watercraft from west and south Sri Lanka. The material submitted consisted of Kapitan's drawings, photographs and captions -- still the centrepiece of the book -- together with a brief introductory overview by the author (Chapter 2) and an early draft of his classification of the watercraft of Sri Lanka (Chapter 4) along with brief notes on each of the drawings. The editor has written up a brief introductory comment to each of the chapters, based on what Gerhard Kapitan had previously published. Kapitan passionately believed in the importance of the traditional watercraft of Sri Lanka in terms of heritage, not only for Sri Lanka, but for the world. His vision of a maritime museum to preserve these craft was realized in 1992 in the old Dutch warehouse, situated near the Old Gate of Galle Fort, but unfortunately it was devastated by the 2004 tsunami. This volume, an important contribution to nautical archaeology, presents a unique record of the traditional craft that plied, and in many cases still plies, around the coastal waters of Sri Lanka.--Publisher description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-187) and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2024.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781407334455

140733445X

OCLC:

1417251774

Publisher Number:

S1931 BAR Publishing

Access Restriction:

Use copy Restrictions unspecified