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Flatheads & spooneys

by Jens Lund · 1995

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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.

HistorySocial life and customsFishing villagesFishingFolklore