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Author King, Tanya J., editor

Title At home on the waves : human habitation of the sea from the mesolithic to today / edited by Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Berghahn Books, [2019]
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Series Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 24
Contents Intro; At Home on the Waves; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction -- At Sea in the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 1 -- Moving Beyond the "Scape" to Being in the (Watery) World, Wherever; Chapter 2 -- Working Grounds, Producing Places, and Becoming at Home at Sea; Chapter 3 -- Reexamination of Brazilian Mounds: Changed Views of Coastal Societies; Chapter 4 -- Seamless Archaeology: The Evolving Use of Archaeology in the Study of Seascapes; Chapter 5 -- Moving Along: Wayfinding, Following, and Nonverbal Communication across the Frozen Seascape of East Greenland
Chapter 6 -- Drawing Gestures: Body Movement in Perceiving and Communicating Submerged LandscapesChaper 7 -- Exploration of a Buried Seascape: The Cultural Maritime Landscapes of Tremadoc Bay; Chapter 8 -- Fish Traps of the Crocodile Islands: Windows on Another World; Chapter 9 -- A Community-Based Approach to Documenting and Interpreting the Cultural Seascapes of the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia; Chapter 10 -- Recognized Seaworthy: Resistance and Transformation among Icelandic Seawomen
Chapter 11 -- "It Is Windier Nowadays": Coastal Livelihoods and Seascape-Making in Qeqertarsuaq, West GreenlandChaper 12 -- Home-Making on Land and Sea in the Archipelagic Philippines; Chapter 13 -- Fishing for Food and Fun: How Fishing Practices Mediate Physical and Discursive Relationships with the Sea in Cateret County, North Carolina, USA; Chapter 14 -- Sea Nomads: Sama-Bajau Mobility, Livelihoods, and Marine Conservation in Southeast Asia; Chapter 15 -- Formal and Informal Territoriality in Ocean Management; Afterword -- At Home on the Waves? A Concluding Comment; Glossary; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 4, 2019)
Subject Ocean and civilization
Human geography
Genre/Form Deakin authored content
Form Electronic book
Author Robinson, Gary, 1953- editor
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ISBN 9781789201437 (electronic bk.)
1789201438 (electronic bk.)