Webster, Joseph (2021) Dual classification revisited: Rodney Needham and vertical asymmetry aboard Scottish trawlers. Maritime Studies, Vol.20 (4). pp. 371-385. ISSN 2212-9790
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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.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Trawlers, Ethnographic Data, Economic Inequality, Social Inequality, Religious , Fishing Village, Fishing Boats, Anthropology, Scotland |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Jeeva ICSF Rajan |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Dec 2021 12:07 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Dec 2021 12:09 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/7611 |
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