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Sheppard, Carroll Anne. "Sailing Parties: An Ethnochronicle of Beach Haven's Charterboat Captains and their Families, 1876-1976," University of Pennsylvania, 1991. Advisor: Murray G. Murphey (2, 11, 3)
Along the New Jersey shore, there are men who take clients, or parties, fishing for the day in their charterboats. These captains began their trade in Beach Haven, an early resort, in the 1870’s. This is written in an experimental mode, and tells the story of early success, growth, maturation and decline of charterboat fishing through first-hand accounts from newspapers, family journals, and oral histories. The role of the author in creating a plot or purpose to the history is deliberately lessened; to distinguish it from traditional history or ethnography, the term ethnochronicle is employed. the ethnochronicle is suggested for use where the histories of recent or presently living Americans are told in an ethnographic context.
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