Ships, Saints and Sealore

Cultural Heritage and Ethnography of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea

Dionisius A. Agius, Timmy Gambin, Athena Trakadas, Dionisius A. Agius, Timmy Gambin, Athena Trakadas

• Publisher: Archaeopress
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781905739950
• eBook ISBN: 9781905739967
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

Just as the sea has played a pivotal role in the connectivity of people, economies and cultures, it has also provided a common platform for inter-disciplinary cooperation amongst academics. This book is a selection of conference papers and other contributions that has seen the coming-together of scholars and researchers from backgrounds as diverse as archaeology, history, ethnography, maritime and heritage studies of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Its strength lies in the way such diversity has been harnessed to provide an engaging and insightful study of the sea and its influences on various factors of life - both past and present.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Foreword
• A seaman’s view of the Mediterranean
• Maritime activity and the Divine – an overview of religious expression by Mediterranean seafarers, fishermen and travellers
• Hazards at sea: a case-study of two ex-voto paintings from the Church of the Karmelitani Skalzi in Bormla, Malta
• The Holy Vessel: the Vascelluzzo of Messina during the early modern period
• Two maritime related confraternities established at Bormla (Cospicua) parish church, Malta
• Quatri partitu en cosmographia pratica i por otro nombre llamado Espejo de navegantes by Alonso de Chaves: a navigation manual for the instruction of Spanish pilots in the sixteenth century
• Images of pirates and slaves in traditional Greek popular songs
• Sun, sand and sea: tourism and the commodification of Malta’s maritime heritage
• Work, tourism and the sea: Bulgarian experiences in Malta
• Lateen sails versus fibreglass boats: the contradictions of a maritime heritage process – the Platja dels Pescadors on the Catalonian coast
• The Maritime Museum of Barcelona’s approach to maritime ethnology: research and communications
• Sailing the Red Sea: ships, infrastructure, seafarers and society
• The dgħajsa: a Phoenician survival
• Maritime ethnography and archaeology
• The maritime heritage of Yemen: a focus on traditional wooden “dhows”
• The hūrī of Socotra: cultural treasure or coastal trash?
• Index
• Back cover
• A seaman’s view of the Mediterranean
• Maritime activity and the Divine – an overview of religious expression by Mediterranean seafarers, fishermen and travellers
• Hazards at sea:
• The Holy Vessel: the Vascelluzzo of Messina
• Two maritime related confraternities established at Bormla (Cospicua) parish church, Malta
• Quatri partitu en cosmographia pratica i por otro nombre llamado Espejo de navegantes by Alonso de Chaves: a navigation manual for the instruction of Spanish pilots in the sixteenth century
• Images of pirates and slaves in traditional Greek popular songs
• Sun, sand and sea: tourism and the commodification of Malta’s maritime heritage
• Work, tourism and the sea: Bulgarian experiences in Malta
• Lateen sails versus fibreglass boats: the contradictions of a maritime heritage process – the Platja dels Pescadors on the Catalonian coast
• The Maritime Museum of Barcelona’s approach to maritime ethnology: research and communications
• Sailing the Red Sea: ships, infrastructure, seafarers and society
• The dgħajsa: a Phoenician survival
• Maritime ethnography and archaeology
• The maritime heritage of Yemen: a focus on traditional wooden ‘dhows’
• The hūrī of Socotra: cultural treasure or coastal trash?