Flatheads and Spooneys - Fishing for a Living in the Ohio River Valley

Informationen zum Autor Jens Lund is an independent folklorist, an instructor at Linfield College, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington. Klappentext Today's community of fisherfolk is small and economically marginal, but their activities sustain a complex of traditional skills and a body of verbal folklore associated with river life. In Flatheads and Spooneys, Jens Lund describes the activities, boats, gear, verbal lore, and sense of identity of the fisherfolk of the lower Ohio River Valley and provides historical and ethnobiological background for their way of life. Zusammenfassung Lund connects the importance of river fish in the diet of inhabitants of the valley to local fishing activities and explores the relationship between river people and those whose culture is primarily land-based, painting a colorful portrait of river fishing and river life.

About the author

Jens Lund is an independent folklorist, an instructor at Linfield College, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington.

Product details

• Authors: Jens Lund
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2010
• EAN: 9780813129686
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-2968-6
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Ohio River Valley Series; Ohio River Valley
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories