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Flatheads & spooneys

Jens Lund

1995209 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1995
first published
  • 1995University Press of Kentucky · 209 pages · ENGISBN 9780813119274

Today's community of fisherfolk is small and economically marginal, but their activities sustain a complex of traditional skills and a body of verbal folklore associated with river life. In Flatheads and Spooneys, Jens Lund describes the activities, boats, gear, verbal lore, and sense of identity of the fisherfolk of the lower Ohio River Valley and provides historical and ethnobiological background for their way of life.

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