This maritime anthropology volume presents a cosmology of ships. 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.…mehr
This maritime anthropology volume presents a cosmology of ships. 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.
Chryssanthi 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.
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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
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
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