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Sea-time : an ethnographic adventure / Helen Sampson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sampson, H. (Helen), author.
- Series:
- Routledge advances in ethnography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Merchant marine--History.
- Merchant marine.
- Merchant ships--History.
- Merchant ships.
- Sailors--History.
- Sailors.
- Shipping--History.
- Shipping.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : color illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Helen Sampson is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. She has been the Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre for over 20 years. In 2014, she won the BBC/BSA ethnography prize for her book International Seafarers and Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century.
- Contents:
- Joining Beluga
- Sea craft
- Full steam ahead
- Crashing and banging in port
- Stopping and starting: from the Bosporus to the Black Sea
- Heading for home: shipboard reflections
- The ebb and flow of time
- Gender matters: the challenges of being female on board
- How ships lost their 'rock and roll'!
- Spartan standards and sacrifice: a life on floating steel
- Conclusions, signing off and final thoughts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 09, 2024).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sampson, H. Sea-time
- ISBN:
- 9781003440123
- 1003440126
- 9781040001851
- 1040001858
- 9781040001882
- 1040001882
- Publisher Number:
- 40032241775
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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