The Culture of Ships and Maritime Narratives

Chryssanthi Papadopoulou is a maritime archaeologist, a Classicist and the Assistant Director of the British School at Athens. She has published on the perception of shipwrecks by maritime archaeologists; underwater sites of various periods; Greek religion; and the archaeology of Classical Athens, and has been excavating shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean since 2005. Her research draws on various disciplines including land and maritime archaeology, philosophy, anthropology and analytical psychology.

List of Figures

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Ship cosmology: an introduction

Chryssanthi Papadopoulou

Part I Seafaring Ships

The boatbuilder, boat building, and the creation of socialities

Elena Maragoudaki

Seafaring in the Mediterranean: intercultural interaction and loneliness on board

Giorgos Tsimouris

A woman on a fishing boat: an ethnographic account of wilderness, familiarity and gender relations

Brigida Marovelli

Dwelling, pollution, and the rhetorical creation of "nature" on inland waterways

Benjamin O L Bowles

Part II Shorefaring Ships

Ships in the sky: maritime mythistories in the Pindos Mountains

Daniel M. Knight

The ship as the symbol of emigration in Greek cinema

Eleni N. Mitakou

What we think about when we think about ships: a journey through philosophical metaphors

Chryssanthi Papadopoulou

Shipwreck is everywhere

Alicia E. Stallings

Afterthoughts

John Bennet

Index