The culture of ships and maritime narratives / edited by Chryssanthi Papadopoulou.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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.