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Documenting Maritime Folklife: An Introductory Guide

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Architecture | Bibliographies and Directories | Boats and Boatbuilding | Cultural Conservation and Historic Preservation | Ethics | Exhibits | Fieldwork Guides | Folklife Studies, Introductions | Folklife Studies, Maritime | Fundraising | Landscape | Photography | Sound Recording | Terminology

Architecture

Blumenson, John. Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945. 2d rev. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1981.

Glassie, Henry. Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1975.

Howe, Barbara J., Dolores A. Fleming, Emory L. Kemp, and Ruth Ann Overbeck. Houses and Homes: Exploring Their History. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1987.

McAlester, Virginia, and Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

McKee, Harley J. Recording Historic Buildings: The Historic American Buildings Survey. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1970.

Peatross, C. Ford, ed. Historic America: Buildings, Structures, and Sites. Washington: Library of Congress, 1983.

Renk, Thomas B. "A Guide to Recording Structural Details of Historic Buildings." Historical Archaeology III (1969): 34-48.

Bibliographies and Directories

Acheson, James M. "Anthropology of Fishing." Annual Review of Anthropology 10 (1981), 275-316.

Albion, Robert Greenhalgh. Naval and Maritime History: An Annotated Bibliography. Mystic, Ct.: The Marine Historical Association, Inc., 1972.

Bartis, Peter, and Mary Hufford, comps. Maritime Folklife Resources: A Directory and Index. Publications of the American Folklife Center, no. 5. Washington: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1980.

Landberg, Leif, comp. A Bibliography for the Anthropological Study of Fishing Industries and Maritime Communities and Supplement, 1973-1977. Kingston, R.I.: University of Rhode Island, International Center for Marine Resources Development, 1973 and 1979, respectively.

Marshall, Howard W. American Folk Architecture: A Selected Bibliography. Publications of the American Folklife Center, no. 8. Washington: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1981.

National Trust for Historic Preservation. Directory of Maritime Heritage Resources. Washington: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1984.

Boats and Boatbuilding

Anderson, Richard K. Guidelines for Recording Historic Ships. Washington: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Historic American Engineering Record, 1988.

Brewington, Marion V. Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes and Bugeyes. Cambridge, Md.: Cornell Maritime Press, Inc., 1963.

Chapelle, Howard I. American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design Development and Construction. New York: W.W. Norton, 1951.

_______. Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction. New York: W.W. Norton, 1941.

_______. The National Watercraft Collection. 2d ed. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press; Camden, Me.: International Marine Publishing Co., 1976.

Comeaux, Malcolm L. "Origin and Evolution of Mississippi River Fishing Craft." Pioneer America 10 (1978): 73-97.

Day, Arno. The Lines Plan. 3 Pts. Sea-TV: New Haven, Ct., 1990. Two 30-minute videotapes, and one 60-minute videotape.

Delgado, James P., comp. Preliminary Inventory of Historic Large Vessels Preserved in the United States. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, The National Maritime Initiative, 1987.

Delgado, James P., comp. Preliminary Inventory of Historic Small Craft Collections. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, The National Maritime Initiative, 1987.

Gardner, John. "Taking Lines Off Bigger Boats." National Fisherman 67, no.1 (May 1986): 58.

_______. "Taking Off Lines Allows Duplication of Existing Boats." National Fisherman 66, no. 12 (April 1986): 44-5.

_______. The Dory Book. Camden, Me.: International Marine Publishing Co., 1978.

_______. "Triangulation Method is Well Suited to Lifting Lines." National Fisherman 67, no. 4 (August 1986): 65-67.

Gillmer, Thomas C. Working Watercraft: A Survey of Surviving Local Boats of America and Europe. Camden, Me.: International Marine Publishing Co., 1978.

Greenhill, Basil. Archaeology of the Boat: A New Introductory Study. Middletown, Ct.: Wesleyan University Press, 1976.

Guthorn, Peter J. The Seabright Skiff and Other Jersey Shore Boats. Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1971.

Holmes, Tommy. The Hawaiian Canoe. Kauai, Hi.: Editions Limited, 1981.

Hornell, James. Water Transport: Origin and Early Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946.

Johnson, Paula J., and David A. Taylor. "Beyond the Boat: Documenting the Cultural Context." In Boats: A Field Manual for the Documentation of Small Craft, ed. Paul Lipke. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, forthcoming.

Knipmeyer, William P. "Folk Boats of Eastern French Louisiana." Edited by Henry Glassie. In American Folklife, ed. Don Yoder, 105-49. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1976.

Lipke, Paul, ed. Boats: A Field Manual for the Documentation of Small Craft. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, forthcoming.

_______. Plank on Frame: The Who, What and Where of 150 Boatbuilders. Camden, Me.: International Marine Publishing Co., 1981.

Lunt, C. Richard K. "Lobsterboat Building on the Eastern Coast of Maine: A Comparative Study." Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1976.

_______. "The St. Lawrence Skiff and the Folklore of Boats." New York Folklore Quarterly 29 (1973): 154-268.

McKee, Eric. Clenched Lap or Clinker: An Appreciation of Boatbuilding Technique. London: National Maritime Museum, 1972.

_______. Working Boats of Britain: Their Shape and Purpose. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press, 1983.

Moonsammy, Rita. "Smart Boats, Able Captains: The Schooner as Metaphor." New Jersey Folklife 12 (1987): 38-44.

Phillips-Birt, Douglas. The Naval Architecture of Small Craft. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1957.

Salaman, R. A. "Tools of the Shipwright, 1650-1925." Folk- Life 5 (1967): 19-51.

Shock, Edison Irwin. "How I Took Pinkletink's Lines." In The Catboat Book, ed. John M. Leavens, 38-41. Camden, Me.: International Marine Publishing Co. for the Catboat Association, 1973.

Simmons, Walter J. Lapstrake Boatbuilding. Camden, Me.: International Marine Publishing Co., 1978.

_______. Lapstrake Boatbuilding Volume 2. Camden, Me.: International Marine Publishing Co., 1980.

_______. Lines, Lofting, and Half Models. Lincolnville, Me.: Ducktrap Woodworking, 1991.

Taylor, David A. Boat Building in Winterton, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Paper no. 41. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1982.

_______. "Taking the Lines." Woodenboat 19 (Nov.-Dec. 1977): 42-45.

Time-Life Books. The Classic Boat. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1977.

Vaitses, Allan H. Lofting. Camden, Me.: International Marine Publishing Co., 1980.

Cultural Conservation and Historic Preservation

Delgado, James P. "Grim Realities, High Hopes, Moderate Gains: The State of Historic Ship Preservation." Cultural Resources Management Bulletin 12, no. 4 (1989): 1, 3-4.

Delgado, James P., and a National Park Service Maritime Task Force. Nominating Historic Vessels and Shipwrecks to the National Register of Historic Places. Nation Register Bulletin 20. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Interagency Resources Division, n.d.

Derry, Anne, H. Ward Jandl, Carol D. Shull, and Jan Thorman. Guidelines for Local Surveys: A Guide for Preservation Planning. National Register Bulletin 24. Rev. ed. Washington: National Register of Historic Places, Interagency Resources Division, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1985.

Hufford, Mary. One Space, Many Places: Folklife and Land Use in New Jersey's Pinelands National Reserve. Washington: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1986.

King, Thomas F., Patricia Parker, and Gary Berg. Anthropology in Historic Preservation: Caring for Culture's Clutter. New York: Academic Press, 1977.

Loomis, Ormond, coord. Cultural Conservation: The Protection of Cultural Heritage in the United States. Publications of the American Folklife Center, no. 10. Washington: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1983.

Ethics

American Anthropological Association. Professional Ethics: Statements and Procedures of the American Anthropological Association. Washington: American Anthropological Association, 1983.

Exhibits

Witteborg, Lothar P. Good Show: A Practical Guide for Temporary Exhibitions. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1981.

Fieldwork Guides

Allen, Barbara, and Lynwood Montell. From Memory to History: Using Oral Sources in Local Historical Research. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1981.

Bartis, Peter. Folklife & Fieldwork: A Layman's Introduction to Field Techniques. Rev. and expanded ed. Publications of the American Folklife Center, no. 3. Washington: Library of Congress, 1990.

Baum, Willa K. Oral History and the Local Historical Society. 3rd rev. ed. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1987.

Burgess, Robert G. Field Research: A Sourcebook and Field Manual. Contemporary Social Research Series: 4. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982.

Danzer, Gerald A. Public Places: Exploring Their History. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1987.

Georges, Robert A., and Michael Owen Jones. People Studying People: The Human Element in Fieldwork. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980.

Goldstein, Kenneth S. A Guide for Field Workers in Folklore. Hatboro, Pa.: Folklore Associates, 1964.

Gorden, Raymond L. Interviewing: Strategy, Techniques and Tactics. Homewood, Ill.: The Dorsey Press, 1969.

Ives, Edward D. The Tape Recorded Interview: A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and Oral History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980.

Jackson, Bruce. Fieldwork. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Kammen, Carol. On Doing Local History: Reflections on What Local Historians Do, Why, and What it Means. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1986.

Kyvig, David E., and Myron A. Marty. Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1982.

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History. An Oral Historian's Work. Orono, Me.: Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, University of Maine, 1987. 30 min. videotape.

Roberts, Warren E. "Fieldwork: Recording Material Culture." In Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction, ed. Richard M. Dorson, 431-44. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.

Spradley, James P. Participant Observation. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.

_______. The Ethnographic Interview. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.

Spradley, James P., and McCurdy, David W. The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society. Chicago: Science Research Association, 1972.

Thompson, Paul. The Voice of the Past: Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Folklife Studies, Introductions

Brown, Linda Keller, and Kay Mussell, eds. Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984.

Brunvand, Jan H. The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction. New York: W.W. Norton, 1968.

Byington, Robert H., ed. Working Americans: Contemporary Approaches to Occupational Folklife. Smithsonian Folklife Studies, no. 3. Los Angeles: California Folklore Society, 1978.

Dorson, Richard. Buying the Wind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

Dorson, Richard M., ed. Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.

_______. Handbook of American Folklore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986

Glassie, Henry. Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968.

Oring, Elliott, ed. Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: An Introduction. Logan, Ut.: Utah State University Press, 1986.

Toelken, Barre. The Dynamics of Folklore. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979.

Yoder, Don, ed. American Folklife. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976. Zeitlin, Steven J., Amy J. Kotkin, and Holly Cutting Baker. A Celebration of American Family Folklore: Tales and Traditions from the Smithsonian Collection. New York: Pantheon, 1982.

Folklife Studies, Maritime

Abrahams, Roger D., Kenneth S. Goldstein, and Wayland D. Hand, eds., with the assistance of Maggie Craig. By Land and By Sea: Studies in the Folkore of Work and Leisure Honoring Horace P. Beck on his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Hatboro, Pa.: Legacy Books, 1985.

Acheson, James M. "Territories of the Maine Lobstermen." Natural History 81 (1972): 60-69.

_______. The Lobster Gangs of Maine. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1988.

Andersen, Raoul, ed. North Atlantic Maritime Cultures: Anthropological Essays on Changing Adaptations. The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979.

_______. "Those Fishermen Lies: Custom and Competition in North Atlantic Fisherman Communication." Ethnos 38 (1973): 153-64.

Andersen, Raoul, and Cato Wadel, eds. North Atlantic Fishermen: Anthropological Essays on Modern Fishing. Newfoundland Social and Economic Papers, no. 5. St. John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1972.

Anson, Peter F. British Sea Fishermen. London: William Collins, 1944.

_______. Fisher Folk-lore: Old Taboos and Superstitions among the Fisher Folk. London: Faith Press, 1965.

_______. Fishermen and Fishing Ways. London: George Harrup and Co., Ltd., 1932.

_______. Fishing Boats and Fisher Folk on the East Coast of Scotland. London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1930.

_______. Scots Fisherfolk. Banff: Banffshire Journal Ltd., 1950.

Beck, Horace P. Folklore and the Sea. Mystic Seaport Marine Historical Association American Maritime Library, vol. 6. Middletown, Ct.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.

Beck, Jane C. The Legacy of the Lake: A Study Guide to the Folklife of the Lake Champlain Region. Montpelier, Vt.: The Vermont Folklife Center, 1985.

Brandt, Andres von. Fish Catching Methods of the World. 3rd rev. and enlarged ed. Farnham, England: Fishing News Books Ltd., 1984.

Browning, Robert J. Fisheries of the North Pacific: History, Species, Gear & Processes. Rev. ed. Anchorage, Ak.: Alaska Northwest Publishing Co., 1980.

Butler, Gary R. "Culture, Cognition, and Communication: Fishermen's Location Finding in L'Anse-a-Canards, Newfoundland." Canadian Folklore Canadien 5, nos. 1-2 (1983): 7-21.

Calander, Harriet Bell. History of Fish and Fishing in the Upper Mississippi River. Davenport, Ia.: Upper Mississippi River Conservation Commission, 1954.

Carey, George. A Faraway Time and Place: Lore of the Eastern Shore. Washington and New York: Robert B. Luce, Inc., 1971.

Comeaux, Malcolm L. Atchafalaya Swamp Life: Settlement and Folk Occupations. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972.

Curry, Jane. The River's in My Blood: Riverboat Pilots Tell Their Stories. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

Eunson, Jerry. "The Fair-Isle Fishing-Marks." Scottish Studies 5 (1961): 181-98.

Feinberg, Richard. Polynesian Seafaring and Navigation: Ocean Travel in Anutan Culture and Society. Kent, Ohio, and London: The Kent State University Press, 1988.

Florida Department of State. Fishing All My Days. White Springs, Fl.: Florida Department of State, Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs, 1986. Videotape.

Forman, Shepard. "Cognition and the Catch: The Location of Fishing Spots in a Brazilian Coastal Village. Ethnology 6, no. 4 (1967): 417-26.

Fricke, Peter H., ed. Seafarer & Community: Towards a Social Understanding of Seafaring. London: Croom Helm, 1973.

Frye, John. The Men All Singing: The Story of Menhaden Fishing. Norfolk, Va.: Dunning, 1978.

Gersuny, Carl, and John J. Poggie, Jr. "Danger and Fishermen's Taboos." Maritimes 16, no. 1 (1972): 3-4.

Gilmore, Janet C. The World of the Oregon Fishboat: A Study in Maritime Folklife. Ann Arbor, Mi.: UMI Research Press, 1986.

Gladwin, Thomas. East is a Big Bird: Navigation and Logic on Puluwat Atoll. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.

Goode, George Brown, ed. The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. 7 vols. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884-87.

Green, Ben. Finest Kind: A Celebration of a Florida Fishing Village. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1985.

Griffin, Carl, III, and Alaric Faulkner, and including the reminiscences of Alberta Poole Rowe. Coming of Age on Damariscove Island, Maine. Northeast Folklore 21 (1980).

Gunda, Bela, ed. The Fishing Culture of the World: Studies in Ethnology, Cultural Ecology and Folklore. 2 vols. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1984.

Hall, C. Eleanor. "Ice Fishing on Lake Champlain." New York Folklore Quarterly 21, no. 1 (1965): 19-25.

Hasslöf, Olof. "Sources of Maritime History and Methods of Research." Mariner's Mirror, 52 (1966): 127-44.

Hasslöf, Olof, Henning Henningsen, and Arne Emil Christensen, Jr., eds. Ships and Shipyard, Sailors and Fishermen: Introduction to Maritime Ethnology. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1972.

Henningsen, H. "Taboo Words Among Seamen and Fishermen." Mariners' Mirror 43 (1957): 336-37.

Hornell, James. Fishing in Many Waters. Cambridge: The University Press, 1950.

Huntington, Gale, ed. Tom Tilton: Coaster and Fisherman. Northeast Folklore 23 (1982).

Jenkins, J. Geraint. Nets and Coracles. Newton Abbot, England, and North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1974.

Johnson, Paula J., ed. Working the Water: The Commercial Fisheries of Maryland's Patuxent River. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1988.

Kennedy, Don H. Ship Names: Origins and Usages During 45 Centuries. Charlottlesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia for The Mariners Museum, 1974.

Kochiss, John M. Oystering from New York to Boston. Middletown, Ct.: Wesleyan University Press for Mystic Seaport, 1974.

Kozma, LuAnne Gaykowski, ed. Living at a Lighthouse: Oral Histories from the Great Lakes. Allen Park, Mi.: Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association, 1987.

Lewis, David. We, the Navigators. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1972.

Lloyd, Timothy C., and Patrick B. Mullen. Lake Erie Fishermen: Work, Tradition, and Identity. Urbana and Chicago: Univeristy of Illinois Press, 1990.

Lund, Jens. "Danger and Delight: Environmental-Experience Narratives in Southern New Jersey." New Jersey Folklife 12 (1987): 26-31.

Lund, Jens. "Fishing as a Folk Occupation in the Lower Ohio Valley." Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1982.

Maril, Robert Lee. Texas Shrimpers: Community, Capitalism, and the Sea. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1983.

Martin, Kenneth R., and Nathan R. Lipfert. Lobstering and the Maine Coast. Bath, Me.: Maine Maritime Museum, 1985.

Matthiessen, Peter. Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork. New York: Random House, 1986.

Miller, Jennifer, ed. Coastal Affair. Special issue of Southern Exposure 10, no. 3 (May/June 1982).

Moonsammy, Rita. "Smart Boats, Able Captains: The Schooner as Metaphor." New Jersey Folklife 12 (1987): 38-44.

Moonsammy, Rita Zorn, David Steven Cohen, and Lorraine E. Williams, eds. Pinelands Folklife. New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Mullen, Patrick B. I Heard the Old Fishermen Say: Folklore of the Texas Gulf Coast. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978.

Orbach, Michael K. Hunters, Seamen and Entrepreneurs: The Tuna Fishermen of San Diego. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

Pearson, John C., ed. The Fish and Fisheries of Colonial North America: A Documentary History of the Fishery Resources of the United States and Canada. 9 vols. Rockville, Md.: National Marine Fisheries Service, 1972.

Pilcher, William W. The Portland Longshoremen: A Dispersed Community. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972.

Poggie, John J., Jr., and Carl Gersuny. Fishermen of Galilee: The Human Ecology of a New England Coastal Community. University of Rhode Island Marine Bulletin Series, no. 17. Kingston, R.I.: University of Rhode Island, 1974.

_____. "Risk and Ritual: An Interpretation of Fishermen's Folklore in a New England Community." Journal of American Folklore 85 (1972): 66-72.

Posen, I. Sheldon. You Hear the Ice Talking: The Ways of People and Ice on Lake Champlain. Published in conjunction with the Lake Champlain Ice Exhibition, Clinton County Historical Museum, Plattsburgh, N.Y., January - April 1987. Plattsburgh, N.Y.: The Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System, 1986.

Sainsbury, John C. Commercial Fishing Methods: An Introduction to Vessels and Gear. London: Fishing News (Books) Ltd., 1971.

Smith, M. Estelle, ed. Those Who Live From the Sea: A Study in Maritime Anthropology. St. Paul, Mn.: West Publishing Co., 1977.

Stiles, R. Geoffrey. "Fishermen, Wives and Radios: Aspects of Communications in a Newfoundland Fishing Community." In North Atlantic Fishermen: Anthropological Essays on Modern Fishing, eds. Raoul Andersen and Cato Wadel, 35-60. Newfoundland Social and Economic Papers, no. 5. St. John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1972. Taylor, David A. "Songs About Fishing: Examples of Contemporary Maritime Songs. Canadian Folklore Canadien, 12 no. 2 (1990), 85-99.

Taylor, Lawrence J. Dutchmen on the Bay: The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.

Thompson, Paul, with Tony Wailey and Trevor Lummis. Living the Fishing. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.

Tunstall, Jeremy. The Fishermen. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1969.

Wood, Pamela, ed. The Salt Book: Lobstering, Sea Moss Pudding, Stone Walls, Rum Running, Maple Syrup, Snowshoes, and Other Yankee Doings. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977.

_____, ed. Salt 2: Boatbuilding, Sailmaking, Island People, River Driving, Bean Hole Beans, Wooden Paddles, and More Yankee Doings. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1980.

Fundraising

Bauer, David G. The "How To" Grants Manual: Successful Grantseeking Techniques for Obtaining Public and Private Grants. New York: American Council on Education, Macmillan, 1988.

Grasty, William K. Successful Fundraising. New York: Scribner, 1982.

Flanagan, Joan. The Grass Roots Fundraising Book. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1982.

The Foundation Center. The Foundation Directory. 13th ed. New York: The Foundation Center, 1991.

Landscape

Lewis, Pierce. "Learning from Looking: Geographic and Other Writing about the American Cultural Landscape." American Quarterly 35, no. 3 (1983): 242-61.

Meinig, D.W., ed. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979

Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.

______. Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice- Hall, 1974.

Photography

Brown, Bruce C. Watershots: How to Take Better Photos On and Around the Water. Camden, Me.: International Marine Publishing Co., 1988.

Collier, John, Jr., and Malcolm Collier. Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. Rev. and expanded ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

Dean, Jeff. Architectural Photography: Techniques for Architects, Preservationists, Historians, Photographers, and Urban Planners. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1982.

Fleischhauer, Carl. "Sound Recording and Still Photography in the Field." In Handbook of American Folklore, ed. Richard M. Dorson, 384-90. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,1986.

Hedecoe, John. The Photographer's Handbook. Westminster, Md.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1977.

Horenstein, Henry. Black and White Photography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.

Jolly, Brad. Videotaping Local History. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1982.

Sound Recording

Burstein, Herman. Questions and Answers About Tape Recording. Blue Ridge Summitt, Pa.: TAB Books, 1974.

Clifford, Martin. Microphones--How They Work & How to Use Them. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1977.

Fleischhauer, Carl. "Sound Recording and Still Photography in the Field." In Handbook of American Folklore, ed. Richard M. Dorson, 384-90. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.

Westcott, Charles G., and Richard F. Dubbe. Tape Recorders: How They Work. New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1974.

Terminology

Kerchove, René de. International Maritime Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Useful Maritime Terms and Phrases, Together with Equivalents in French and German. 2d rev. ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983.

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