The World of the Oregon Fishboat: A Study in Maritime Folklife - Couverture rigide

Gilmore, Janet C.

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ISBN 10 : 0874221870 ISBN 13 : 9780874221879

Editeur : Washington State University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Originally published in a limited cloth edition in 1986, this reissue of The World of the Oregon Fishboat brings an important and lively book to a wider audience.

Here, in an easily-read narrative, Janet Gilmore describes life in the Coos Bay community of Charleston, based upon her years of interviewing and research. She recounts a precarious lifestyle, but one filled with tradition. Oregon fishboats, and the fishermen who work on them, have been a mainstay of the Northwestern way of life. Now, as Gilmore notes both in her narrative and in the new introduction to this edition, that way of life is dramatically changing. In the process, the fishboats used by Oregon's commercial fishermen are also changing. The World of the Oregon Fishboat records a way of life as it was in the late 1970s as it focuses on the fisherman's vessel--which serves as vehicle, shelter, home, and companion.

The World of the Oregon Fishboat is both an elegant recording of an important aspect of twentieth century American life and a compassionate plea to understand a world of work that most of us rarely contemplate.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A fifth-generation Pacific Northwesterner and native Oregonian, descended from Norwegian shipbuilders, Janet C. Gilmore is an independent researcher with a doctorate in folklore from Indiana University. She specializes in maritime traditions, studying commercial fishermen on the Oregon Coast, western Great Lakes, and upper Mississippi River. She has written numerous articles, curated exhibits, and worked with commercial fishers to present their traditions at folk festivals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Washington State University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0874221870
• ISBN 13: 9780874221879
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 285
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• Personne responsable: non disponible