Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies

On the Road of the Winds

Folk Stories, Meteorological Knowledge and Nautical Enskilment in Japanese Seafaring Tradition

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Abstract

Starting from a series of historical contexts concerning Japanese seafaring tradition, this paper proposes an anthropological analysis on the practices of sailing navigation, focusing on the recursive interaction of traditional meteorological knowledge, nautical material culture and navigational knowledge that are historically grounded in the contexts of practice.


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Submitted: Feb. 21, 2017 | Accepted: April 5, 2017 | Published Dec. 15, 2017 | Language: en

Keywords Winds • Traditional Meteorological Knowledge • Japan • Enskilment • Anthropology of Knowledge • History of Sailing Navigation

Copyright © 2017 Giovanni Bulian. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-171-3/CFJS-7-7


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