Title: Boats of South Asia
First published: 2002
Description: "Based on recent fieldwork in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, this book documents some of the vast array of traditional boats used in the sub-continent today for fishing and other coastal and riverine tasks. Written in non-technical language, it sets new standards for the documentation of water transport, and introduces styles of boat-building which are unlikely to be found outside the sub-Continent." "An important book for ethnographers, maritime archaeologists and historians, Boats of South Asia sets the boats in their geographical environment and their technological and social context."--Jacket.
Subjects: Boats and boating, Boatbuilding, Maritime anthropology, Social life and customs, Asia, social life and customs, Anthropologie maritime, Bateaux, Conception et construction, TRANSPORTATION, Ships & Shipbuilding, Pictorial, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Marine & Naval, Manners and customs, Onderwaterarcheologie, Scheepsbouw
Places: South Asia
LC classification: GN635.S57 M34 2002