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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.
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Foreword Bonnie McCay Acknowledgments
Introduction: At Sea in the Twenty-First Century
Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson Chapter 1. Moving Beyond the "Scape" to Being in the (Watery) World, Wherever
Hannah Cobb and Jesse Ransley Chapter 2. Working Grounds, Producing Places, and Becoming at Home at Sea
Penny McCall Howard Chapter 3. Reexamination Brazilian Mounds: Changed Views of Coastal Societies
Daniela Klokler and MaDu Gaspar Chapter 4. Seamless Archaeology: The Evolving Use of Archaeology in the Study of Seascapes
Caroline Wickham-Jones Chapter 5. Moving Along: Wayfinding, Following, and Nonverbal Communication across the Frozen Seascape of East Greenland
Sophie Cäcilie Elixhauser Chapter 6. Drawing Gestures: Body Movement in Perceiving and Communicating Submerged Landscapes
Cristián Simonetti Chapter 7. Exploration of a Buried Seascape: The Cultural Maritime Landscapes of Tremadoc Bay
Gary Robinson Chapter 8. Fish Traps of the Crocodile Islands: Windows on Another World
Bentley James Chapter 9. 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 Chapter 10. Recognized Seaworthy: Resistance and Transformation among Icelandic Fisherwomen
Margaret Willson and Helga Tryggvadóttir Chapter 11. "It Is Windier Nowadays": Coastal Livelihoods and Seascape-Making in Qeqertarsuaq, West Greenland
Pelle Tejsner Chapter 12. Home-Making on Land and Sea in the Archipelagic Philippines
Olivia Swift Chapter 13. Fishing for Food and Fun: How Fishing Practices Mediate Physical and Discursive Relationships with the Sea in Carteret County, North Carolina, US
Noëlle Boucquey and Lisa Campbell Chapter 14. Sea Nomads: Sama-Bajau Mobility, Livelihoods, and Marine Conservation in Southeast Asia
Natasha Stacey and Edward H. Allison Chapter 15. Formal and Informal Territoriality in Ocean Management
Tanya J. King Afterword: At Home on the Waves? A Concluding Comment
Tim Ingold Glossary
Index
About the author
Tanya J. King is an Associate Professor 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.
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.
