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Title At home on the waves : human habitation of the sea from the mesolithic to today / edited by Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson
Edition First paperback edition
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2022
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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology
Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology.
Contents List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: at sea in the twenty-first century / Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson -- Moving beyond the "scape" to being in the (watery) world, wherever / Hannah Cobb and Jesse Ransley -- Working grounds, producing places and becoming at home at sea / Penny McCall Howard -- Re-examining brazilian middens in light of new information about seafaring technology / Daniela Klokler and MaDu Gaspar -- Seamless archaeology: the use of archaeology in the study of seascapes -- Caroline wickham-jones -- Moving along: wayfinding, following and non-verbal communication across the frozen seascape of east greenland / Sophie Cacilie Elixhauser -- Drawing gestures: body movement in perceiving and communicating submerged landscapes / Cristian Simonetti -- Exploration of a buried seascape: the cultural maritime landscapes of tremadoc bay / Gary Robinson -- Fish traps of the crocodile islands: windows on another world / Bentley James -- A community-based approach to documenting and interpreting the cultural seascapes of the recherche archipelago, western australia / David Guilfoyle, Ross Anderson, Ron "Doc" Reynolds, and Tom Kimber -- Recognized seaworthy: resistance and transformation among icelandic fisherwomen / Margaret Willson and Helga Tryggvadottir -- "It is windier nowadays": coastal livelihoods and seascape-making in qeqertarsuaq, west greenland / Pelle Tejsner -- Home-making on land and sea in the archipelagic philippines / Olivia Swift -- Fishing for food and fun: how fishing practices mediate physical and discursive relationships with the sea in carteret county, north carolina, usa / Noelle Boucquey and Lisa Campbell -- Sea-nomads: mobile maritime populations of southeast asia / Natasha Stacey and Eddie Allison -- Formal and informal territoriality in ocean management / Tanya J. King -- Afterword
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 23, 2022)
Subject Ocean and civilization.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
TRAVEL -- Budget.
TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Human geography
Ocean and civilization
Form Electronic book
Author King, Tanya J., editor
Robinson, Gary, 1966- editor.
LC no. 2019012629
ISBN 9781789201437
1789201438