Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms

Abstract

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Living by the Sea: Amphibious Landscapes of Identity and Community in a 19th-Century “Fisher’s” Village (Grândola, Portugal)

“…However, as will be debated, this 30-year-old general concept has become precisely too general and too short. Although still very useful in large-scale theoretical considerations, and applied by many researchers both to sea, intertidal, and coastal contexts [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17], the concept needs to be used carefully, especially when considering the ecology of human and nonhuman relational behaviors and sustainable concepts that archaeology has acquired since. Also, when adapted to specific communities, it tends to lose its strength, specifically because it seems that it takes a snapshot of the communities under analysis and does not consider the everlasting changes the communities have engaged with, sometimes almost daily.…”