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Moken Boat: Symbolic technology, The

By: Ivanoff, Jacques

This is the first comprehensive study of the boats of the sea-gypsies of the Andaman Sea from Surin Island in Southern Thailand to Ross Island in Burma. The traditional Moken boat has been a cause of wonder for scholars, English administrators, and sea captains. How could such a remote and “uncivilized” people have developed such impressive naval technology? The discrepancy between the level of culture and the high degree of technical skill in boat building is surprising if we look deep inside the nomadic ideology of the Moken: their techniques cannot be understood without reference to their cultural and symbolic contexts. This study provides all the necessary technical tools and symbolic knowledge to understand how the sea-gypsies still survive today in their amazing boat, the kabang. This book also provides an English-French glossary of marine terms and techniques, a glossary of Moken marine technology, and a glossary identifying plants based on an extensive survey of the flora of the region where the Moken live.

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PUBLISHER:	White Lotus
ISBN:	9789748434902
AUTHOR	Ivanoff, Jacques
RELEASED	1999-03-18

PRINT	Bangkok 1999,
WL CODE	E22075
SIZE	180 pp., fully illus., partly in col., 210 x 290 mm
BOOK WEIGHT	0.750 Kg
PACKING WEIGHT	0.200 Kg

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