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ABSTRACT
This (recently republished) book presents an anthropological study of the Scottish fishing community residing in Ferryden and the impacts of their wider social setting. Jane Nadel-Klein, the author, has eloquently woven together her twenty-five years of anthropological studies with a wide body of literature and disciplines spanning many decades, incorporating a breadth of material culture that illuminates topics and brings the themes of the book alive. The narrative takes the reader through time, studying the origins of fishing in the Scottish economy through to the processes of modernisation and globalisation that marginalised fishing-folk and ultimately ended their way of life in Ferryden. The intention of this publication was to bring the voices of fishing-folk to a wider public, such as academics, policy-makers, and those generally interested in fishing culture, rural and heritage studies. To her credit, Nadel-Klein manages to do that in a way that is accessible to all.
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Notes
1 Butler (Citation1999, p. 190) explains that gender, as distinct from biological sex, is what a person does: it is a verb, ‘gender is a performance’, and ‘we regularly punish those who fail to do their gender right’.
2 The section on dissenting faith describes the way early Ferrydener’s viewed the church as a place for the wealthy and then in the 1820s ‘the first religious emissary appeared’, where fishing-folk first collide with religion and evangelism (Nadel-Klein, Citation2003, p. 113). What followed were many religious divisions (such as The Free Kirk) which denote to ideologies of class, power, and autonomy.
3 The UK occupational health statistics are explained by The Marine Accident Investigation Branch, which contextualise the Health and Safety Executive figures: ‘When [fishing industry statistics are] adjusted to show deaths per 100,000 workers, the figures tell a different story, [because] the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) posted its figures for the most dangerous profession in the UK, top of the list was the recycling industry. The HSE’s figures did not include commercial fishing. (MAIB, Citation2018, p. 1).
4 Since publication it is understood that the discipline of museum studies (and collection displays) has progressed within this 20 year period, such as the decolonising museum movement.