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Dual classification revisited: Rodney Needham and vertical asymmetry aboard Scottish trawlers

cam.issuedOnline2021-09-07
dc.contributor.authorWebster, Joseph
dc.contributor.orcidWebster, Joseph [0000-0002-3840-5033]
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-05T16:32:24Z
dc.date.available2022-01-05T16:32:24Z
dc.date.issued2021-12
dc.date.submitted2021-03-02
dc.date.updated2022-01-05T16:32:23Z
dc.description.abstract<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>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.</jats:p>
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.79526
dc.identifier.eissn2212-9790
dc.identifier.issn1872-7859
dc.identifier.others40152-021-00234-1
dc.identifier.other234
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/332079
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC
dc.publisher.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40152-021-00234-1
dc.subject4406 Human Geography
dc.subject4401 Anthropology
dc.subject44 Human Society
dc.subject10 Reduced Inequalities
dc.titleDual classification revisited: Rodney Needham and vertical asymmetry aboard Scottish trawlers
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-07-09
prism.endingPage385
prism.issueIdentifier4
prism.publicationNameMaritime Studies
prism.startingPage371
prism.volume20
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
rioxxterms.versionVoR
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1007/s40152-021-00234-1

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