Aegean Sponge Fishing and the Island of Kalymnos (19th–20th Centuries)
Seiten
2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-70193-9 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-70193-9 (ISBN)
Aegean Sponge Fishing and the Island of Kalymnos offers a detailed study of the fishery and the divers in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as an ethnographic history, and an anthropological and cultural study of the island of Kalymnos and its inhabitants.
This is the story of an Aegean island and its people that prospered from sponge fishing. Meticulously researched, the book reveals Kalymnos’s prevalence in the business, profession and culture of sponge fishing, and its global commercial network. It analyses the fishing practices, the shipowners, the seamen, the women “tough as men”, the divers that risked paralysis or death from decompression disease, something acceptable in the community, like the acceptance of danger in warrior societies.
This is the story of an Aegean island and its people that prospered from sponge fishing. Meticulously researched, the book reveals Kalymnos’s prevalence in the business, profession and culture of sponge fishing, and its global commercial network. It analyses the fishing practices, the shipowners, the seamen, the women “tough as men”, the divers that risked paralysis or death from decompression disease, something acceptable in the community, like the acceptance of danger in warrior societies.
AUTHOR: Evdokia Olympitou (1962 - 2011), Ph.D., was a researcher at the Centre for Neo-Hellenic Research at the Institute for Historical Research of the Hellenic National Research Foundation from 1994 - 2003. From 2003 - 2011, she was an assistant professor of ethnology in the Department of History at the Ionian University. EDITOR: Joyce Goggin, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in literature at the University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on various topics in literature, media studies, popular culture, film, and art history.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Brill's Studies in Maritime History ; 17 |
| Übersetzer | Michaela Stergiopoulou |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 851 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-70193-1 / 9004701931 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-70193-9 / 9789004701939 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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