Kalymnos
Kalymnos

Author: Aris Theodoropoulos

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9789608564480

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Aegean Sponge Fishing and the Island of Kalymnos (19th–20th Centuries)
Aegean Sponge Fishing and the Island of Kalymnos (19th–20th Centuries)

Author: Evdokia Olympitou

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-10-02

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 900470194X

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Before the invention of synthetic sponges, divers culled the seabeds of the Aegean for animal sponges, or "sea gold", to supply global demand, while risking paralysis or death from decompression disease. This is a study of sponge diving and the impact of the industry on the inhabitants of Kalymnos and the Mediterranean. It is a record of the 10,000 divers who died, the 20,000 who were paralysed between 1886 and 1910, and the women who were there to sustain them when they returned home.

An island in Prehistory. Neolithic and Bronze Ages finds from Kalymnos Dodecanese
An island in Prehistory. Neolithic and Bronze Ages finds from Kalymnos Dodecanese

Author: Mario Benzi

Publisher: All’Insegna del Giglio

Published: 2020-11-20

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9609559239

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The earliest prehistoric excavations on the island took place in 1887, when W.R. Paton discovered Mycenaean chamber tombs in the side of the torrent bed, which runs into the harbour of Pothia to the east of the hill of Perakastro, where the Late Bronze Age settlement stood. Most of the vessels found from Paton were presented to the British Museum while others are preserved in other European Museums. The first systematic excavations, however, took place only in the early twenties of the past century when the Italian archaeologist A. Maiuri director of the archaeological exploration of the then Italian islands of the Dodecanese, excavated the three prehistoric caves of Ayia Varvara (1920), Choiromandres (1921), and Vathy-Dhaskalio (1922), which are the object of the present study.

H.O. Pub
H.O. Pub

Author: United States. Hydrographic Office

Publisher:

Published: 1923

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13:

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Secrets from the Greek Kitchen
Secrets from the Greek Kitchen

Author: David E. Sutton

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2014-09-19

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0520280555

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Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transformed by contemporary events. Based on more than twenty years of research and the author’s videos of everyday cooking techniques, this rich ethnography treats the kitchen as an environment in which people pursue tasks, display expertise, and confront culturally defined risks. Kalymnian islanders, both women and men, use food as a way of evoking personal and collective memory, creating an elaborate discourse on ingredients, tastes, and recipes. Author David E. Sutton focuses on micropractices in the kitchen, such as the cutting of onions, the use of a can opener, and the rolling of phyllo dough, along with cultural changes, such as the rise of televised cooking shows, to reveal new perspectives on the anthropology of everyday living.