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Aegean Sponge Fishing and the Island of Kalymnos (19th–20th Centuries)
Series: - Brill's Studies in Maritime History, Volume: 17
This is the story of an Aegean island and its people that prospered from sponge fishing. Meticulously researched, the book reveals Kalymnos’s prevalence in the business, profession and culture of sponge fishing, and its global commercial network. It analyses the fishing practices, the shipowners, the seamen, the women “tough as men”, the divers that risked paralysis or death from decompression disease, something acceptable in the community, like the acceptance of danger in warrior societies.
AUTHOR: Evdokia Olympitou (1962 - 2011), Ph.D., was a researcher at the Centre for Neo-Hellenic Research at the Institute for Historical Research of the Hellenic National Research Foundation from 1994 - 2003. From 2003 - 2011, she was an assistant professor of ethnology in the Department of History at the Ionian University.
EDITOR: Joyce Goggin, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in literature at the University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on various topics in literature, media studies, popular culture, film, and art history.
EDITOR: Joyce Goggin, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in literature at the University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on various topics in literature, media studies, popular culture, film, and art history.
This volume is especially relevant for the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, SOAS and similar research institutions, and specialists in marine biology, oceanography, climate studies, marine geography, ethnography, modern Greek history, island studies, marine history, anthropology, cultural studies, material culture, business history, and trade history.