Braving Troubled Waters

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Sea of Change in a Dutch Fishing Community Written by Rob van Ginkel This ethnographic study considers the engagement of Dutch fishermen with the limited resources of the marine wo rld, as well as the capricious markets and political interventions that govern the fishing industry from the early eighteenth-century to the present day. More specifically, it focuses on the owner-operators, deckhands, fishermen’s wives, and others involved in the fisheries of Texel, an island at the far northwestern fringes of the Netherlands. Elucidating how the fishermen have navigated treacherous waters, in both a real and metaphorical sense, for many decades, Braving Troubled Waters offers a portrait of a community at the interface of local, national, and supranational processes. Paperback, pages, 338 pages, illustrated, charts, notes, bibliography, index, a general Dutch Heritage title Show more