At Home on the Waves: Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today Contributor(s): King, Tanya J. (Editor), Robinson, Gary (Editor) |
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ISBN: 178920142X ISBN-13: 9781789201420 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $137.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Archaeology - Science | Earth Sciences - Oceanography |
Dewey: 551.46 |
LCCN: 2018055830 |
Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.45 lbs) 392 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Contemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine and idealize marine spaces in which humans are absent. In contrast, this collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, and continue to live intimately with it. In doing so, it brings together both ethnographic and archaeological research - much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach - on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods. |
Contributor Bio(s): King, Tanya J.: - Tanya J. King lectures in environmental anthropology at Deakin University, Australia. She is a maritime anthropologist, and her research focuses on the social and ecological implications of environmental policy implementation. Robinson, Gary: -Gary Robinson is a senior lecturer in archaeology at Bangor University, North Wales. His main research interest is the prehistoric archaeology of maritime and coastal communities in western Britain and Ireland. |