This Ingenious and Singular Apparatus
Fishing Kites of the Indo-Pacific
BoD - Books on Demand (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 19. July 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-3-8391-6874-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Norderstedt
Germany
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
75
75 farbige Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 29.7 cm
Width: 21 cm
Thickness: 3.6 cm
Weight
1519 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8391-6874-5 (9783839168745)
Schweitzer Classification
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Author
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.