1st Edition
The Culture of Ships and Maritime Narratives
List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Ship cosmology: an introduction
Chryssanthi Papadopoulou
Part I Seafaring Ships
The boatbuilder, boat building, and the creation of socialities
Elena Maragoudaki
Seafaring in the Mediterranean: intercultural interaction and loneliness on board
Giorgos Tsimouris
A woman on a fishing boat: an ethnographic account of wilderness, familiarity and gender relations
Brigida Marovelli
Dwelling, pollution, and the rhetorical creation of "nature" on inland waterways
Benjamin O L Bowles
Part II Shorefaring Ships
Ships in the sky: maritime mythistories in the Pindos Mountains
Daniel M. Knight
The ship as the symbol of emigration in Greek cinema
Eleni N. Mitakou
What we think about when we think about ships: a journey through philosophical metaphors
Chryssanthi Papadopoulou
Shipwreck is everywhere
Alicia E. Stallings
Afterthoughts
John Bennet
Index
Biography
Chryssanthi Papadopoulou is a maritime archaeologist, a Classicist and the Assistant Director of the British School at Athens. She has published on the perception of shipwrecks by maritime archaeologists; underwater sites of various periods; Greek religion; and the archaeology of Classical Athens, and has been excavating shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean since 2005. Her research draws on various disciplines including land and maritime archaeology, philosophy, anthropology and analytical psychology.
