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The Culture of Ships and Maritime Narratives (Paperback)
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The Culture of Ships and Maritime Narratives (Paperback)
Series: British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies
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The ship transcends the descriptive categories of place, vehicle
and artefact; it is a cosmos, which requires its own cosmology.
This is the subject matter of this volume, which falls within the
broader, flourishing sub-field of maritime anthropology.
Specifically, the volume first investigates the dialectic between
the sea, the ship and the ship-dweller and shows how traits are
exchanged between the three. It then focuses on land-dwellers,
their understanding of seaborne existence and their invaluable
contribution to the culture of ships. It shows that the
romanticised views of life at sea that land-dwellers hold
constitute an important aspect of the cosmology of ships and they
too need to be considered if the polyvalence of ships is to be
fully understood. 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.
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