The Culture of Ships and Maritime Narratives

The ship transcends the descriptive categories of place, vehicle and artefact; it is a cosmos , which requires its own cosmology . This is the subject matter of this volume, which falls within the broader, flourishing sub-field of maritime anthropology. Specifically, the volume first investigates the dialectic between the sea, the ship and the ship-dweller and shows how traits are exchanged between the three. It then focuses on land-dwellers, their understanding of seaborne existence and their i