FARMERS AT SEA - A STUDY OF FISHERMEN IN NORTH NORWAY, 1801-1920

Authors
Citation
S. Dyrvik, FARMERS AT SEA - A STUDY OF FISHERMEN IN NORTH NORWAY, 1801-1920, Journal of family history, 18(4), 1993, pp. 341-356
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Anthropology,"Family Studies
Journal title
ISSN journal
03631990
Volume
18
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
341 - 356
Database
ISI
SICI code
0363-1990(1993)18:4<341:FAS-AS>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
This investigation encompasses three coastal communities in North Norw ay. They are all associated to varying degrees with the cod fisheries in the Lofoten Islands, and comparisons among them reveal how this fis hing created various types of household organization. However, difficu lties arise because it is not the fisherman, but rather the fisherman- farmer that is typical in the region. Concealed in this combination of livelihoods is a life-cycle pattern: youths participated very activel y in fishing, adults less so and the elderly hardly at all. The househ olds of the traditional full-time fishermen were small and simple in s tructure. The households of fishermen-farmers were larger and more com plex. The organization of labor in the fisheries cut across household boundaries. Only during the final decade of the period investigated ar e full-time fishermen distinguishable to any significant degree in the three local communities. At the same time differences in household st ructure begin to rapidly level out.