A Model of Shipboard Interaction on a Hebridean Fishing Vessel

Prattis, J. I.

doi:10.1086/jar.29.3.3629936

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“…Humanity at sea, it seems, is riven by polarity and opposition. The ethnographic examples of this are numerous (Ben-Yehoyada 2016;Cohen 1987;Johnson 1979;Markkula 2011;Marovelli 2014;Prattis 1973;Stiles 1972; for a historical perspective see Steinberg 2001). I only want to mention two examples hereone 'non-modern' and the other 'modern'.…”

Section: Humanity and Hierarchy At Seamentioning

confidence: 99%

Dual classification revisited: Rodney Needham and vertical asymmetry aboard Scottish trawlers

Webster

2021

Maritime Studies

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Drawing on ethnographic data collected while working as a deckhand on two Scottish trawlers, this article analyses the spatialisation of social, religious, and economic inequalities that marked relations between crew members while they hunted for prawns in the North Sea. Moreover, it explores these inequalities as a wider feature of life in Gamrie, Aberdeenshire, a Brethren and Presbyterian fishing village riven by disparities in wealth and religion. Inequalities identified by fishermen at sea mirrored those identified by residents onshore, resulting in fishing boats being experienced as small floating villages. Drawing on the work of Rodney Needham, this article suggests that these asymmetries can be traced along a vertical axis, with greater to lesser wealth and religiosity moving from top/above to bottom/below. The article seeks to understand the presence and persistence of these hierarchies at sea and on land, by revisiting dual classification within anthropological theory.

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Section: Humanity and Hierarchy At Seamentioning

confidence: 99%

Dual classification revisited: Rodney Needham and vertical asymmetry aboard Scottish trawlers

Webster

2021

Maritime Studies

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“…(Pina-Cabral 1986 : 125, 129-130) Gamrie's fishermen showed no such regret in either their evaluations of economic or religious life. To explain this difference, it is helpful to note how nautical anthropologists Stiles ( 1972 ) and Prattis ( 1973 )-writing on Newfoundland and the Isle of Lewis respectively-have both suggested that competition between boats leads to solidarity within individual crews. Their argument, concerned with the functional role of social conflict, can be broadly summarized as follows:…”

Section: Fishing and Witness As Competitive Labormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Where Johnson ( 1979 ), Stiles ( 1972 ), and Prattis ( 1973 ) assume that inter-boat conflict leads to intra-boat harmony, the ethnography presented above suggests a different set of social relationships. My focus will not be on inter-boat conflict but upon intra-crew verbal jousting and its connection to religion.…”

Section: Fishing and Witness As Competitive Labormentioning

confidence: 99%