This Ingenious and Singular Apparatus

Fishing Kites of the Indo-Pacific

Gerry Barton, Stefan Dietrich (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

528 Seiten

2010
BoD – Books on Demand (Verlag)
978-3-8391-6874-5 (ISBN)

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In 1599 in the harbour of Ternate Dutch voyagers observed a method of fishing utterly outside their experience: a fishing line suspended from a kite flown from a boat. Astonishing to Europeans it might have been, but nothing exceptional to fishing communities throughout the seas of the Indo-Pacific region. Infrequently sighted, rarely described, sporadically collected, the authors provide an indispensable account to the understanding of the gentle art of kite fishing: its locations, its methodology, and of the different designs of the kites in the sheltered waters of the tropical archipelagos of Micronesia, Melanesia and Indonesia.

Gerry Barton, M.A. is an ethnographic arts and objects conservator based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Stefan Dietrich is an ethnologist with a particular research interest in Indonesia living in Heidelberg, Germany and affiliated with the University of Munich as Associate Professor of Anthropology.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.7.2010
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 297 mm
Gewicht	1516 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Schlagworte	Hardcover, Softcover / Ethnologie/Völkerkunde
ISBN-10	3-8391-6874-0 / 3839168740
ISBN-13	978-3-8391-6874-5 / 9783839168745
Zustand	Neuware