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dr.  R.J.  (Rob)  van Ginkel
Afdeling Sociologie en Antropologie


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ABOUT ROB VAN GINKEL

Rob van Ginkel graduated in Sociology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam (1988, both cum laude). In 1993, he obtained his Ph.D. (cum laude) from the same university with a dissertation on transformations in two fishing villages on the Dutch island of Texel . Currently, he is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam . He authored several books and scores of articles in edited volumes and national and international journals. For his scholarly work van Ginkel was awarded the Ruigrok Prize of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (1994) and the Hoogendijk Prize (2000). With Jojada Verrips he founded and edited Maritime (Anthropological) Studies. He has been an editor of several other social science journals, including Etnofoor (which he co-founded), Focaal, Volkskundig Bulletin and Sociologische Gids. He is a member of the editorial boards of  cULTUUR,  Etnofoor and Sociologie. He was involved in establishing the Centre for Maritime Research (MARE) in Amsterdam.

Etnofoor
MARE

ACADEMIC INTERESTS

Van Ginkel’s academic interests are in the field of history and anthropology, the history of anthropology, maritime cultures and fishing communities, animal symbolism, European ethnology, national and local culture and identity formation, Suburbia and the ethnography of the Netherlands . As an Amsterdam School of Social Science Research postdoctoral fellow he conducted research concerning the 20th-century scholarly and popular debate on Dutch culture and identity. Subsequent research led him to suburban Zoetermeer, where he studied (the lack of) social cohesion and feelings of belonging. From August 2005 until September 2006, he conducted  follow-up research on Texel (see images below). In December 2007, van Ginkel published a collection of essays on maritime anthropology: Coastal Cultures: An Anthropology of Fishing and Whaling Traditions. Focusing mainly on Europe, the book deals with such themes as: ritual, taboo, ideology, identity and animal symbolism and how these currently intermingle with cultural and environmental politics. For details, click the link. 

Coastal Cultures (distribution in Europe)
Coastal Cultures (distribution in USA and Canada)
Book review in Ausmarine (formerly Professional Fisherman), April 2010 issue

Based on two stints of fieldwork on the island of Texel, van Ginkel has recently published a book entitled Braving Troubled Waters: Sea Change in a Dutch Fishing Community. It is an ethnographic account of economic, social and cultural dimensions of fishing in distant and more recent times. Although still perceived as a way of life, currently fishermen experience profound difficulties in navigating a course that will ensure their future economic survival. The book examines the fisher folk's perceptions of the underlying causes and tensions and the ways in which they attempt to reproduce their métier. The March 2010 issue of Fishing News International says this about the book: "As something of a collector of books about fishing, I can say that there aren't many that get under the skin of the fishing business in the way this book does." [...] "Rob van Ginkel has documented the trials and tribulations of the Texel fishing community in a masterful fashion." The book "gives great insight into the Byzantine complexity of the broader context of Dutch and European fisheries management". For more details, click links.

Braving Troubled Waters (distribution in Europe)
Braving Troubled Waters (distribution in USA and Canada)
Book review in FishingNews International, March 2010 issue

In the summer of 2008, van Ginkel embarked on a new research project concerning the commemoration of World War II in the Netherlands, focusing particularly on war cemeteries, monuments and rituals and their symbolic and ideological dimensions. A book on this topic (in Dutch, title Rondom de stilte. Herdenkingscultuur in Nederland) will be published in the Fall of 2010.

BOOKS (in English)

Rob van Ginkel (2009) Braving Troubled Waters: Sea Change in a Dutch Fishing Community. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Rob van Ginkel (2007) Coastal Cultures: An Anthropology of Fishing and Whaling Traditions. Apeldoorn/Antwerpen: Het Spinhuis Publishers.

Rob van Ginkel (with Alex Strating) (eds.) (2007) Wildness and Sensation: Anthropology of Sinister and Sensuous Realms. Apeldoorn/Antwerpen: Het Spinhuis Publishers.

 



Wildness and Sensation (distribution in Europe)
Wildness and Sensation (distribution in USA and Canada)

BOOKS (in Dutch) - some titles are uploaded (see next page)

Rob van Ginkel (2010) Rondom de stilte. Herdenkingscultuur in Nederland. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker.

Rob van Ginkel (with Léon Deben) (2002) Bouwen aan bindingen. Sociale cohesie in Zoetermeer. Amsterdam: Aksant. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (2001) Van paternalisme naar partnerschap: Corporaties en de strijd om de woonbeschaving.Hilversum: Aedes.

Rob van Ginkel (2000) Volkscultuur als valkuil. Over antropologie, volkskunde en cultuurpolitiek. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis.

Rob van Ginkel (1999) Op zoek naar eigenheid. Denkbeelden en discussies over cultuur en identiteit in Nederland. 's-Gravenhage: Sdu.  

Rob van Ginkel etal., comp. and ed. (1998) Het verloren paradijs. Sociografie van stad en land. Amsterdam: Siswo. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (1997) Notities over Nederlanders. Antropologische reflecties. Amsterdam: Boom.

Rob van Ginkel (1995) ‘Groen zwart, Texels in het hart’. Beschouwingen overeen eilandcultuur.Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis.

Rob van Ginkel (1993) Tussen Scylla en Charybdis. Een etnohistorie van Texels vissersvolk (1813‑1932). Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis.

Rob van Ginkel (1991) Elk vist op zijn tij. Een historisch-antropologische studie van een Zeeuwse maritieme gemeenschap, Yerseke 1870-1914. Zutphen: Walburg Pers.
ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS (in English) - some titles are uploaded (see next page)

Rob van Ginkel (2008) The Dangers of Dancing: Foreign vs. Folk Dances and the Politics of Culture in The Netherlands, 1918-1955. Ethnologia Europaea 38(2):45-65.

Rob van Ginkel (2007)Gentle Giants, Barbaric Beasts and Whale Warriors: Contentious Traditions, Eco-Political Discourse and Identity Politics. Maritime Studies 6(1):9-43. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (2007) Rejoinder. Holy Whale! Maritime Studies 6(1):52-56. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (2007) Celebrating Localism: The Festive Articulation of Texel’s Identity. In: P.J. Margry and H. Roodenburg (eds.), Reframing Dutch Culture: Between Otherness and Authenticity. Aldershot : Ashgate, pp. 37-57. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (with Alex Strating) (2007) Introduction. In: R. van Ginkel and A. Strating (eds.), Wildness and Sensation: Anthropology of Sinister and Sensuous Realms. Apeldoorn/Antwerpen: Het Spinhuis Publishers, pp. 7-13. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (2007) Method in the Madness: An Anthropologist’s Pensée Sauvage. In: R. van Ginkel and A. Strating (eds.), Wildness and Sensation: Anthropology of Sinister and Sensuous Realms. Apeldoorn/Antwerpen: Het Spinhuis Publishers, pp. 14-45. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (2007) Touching Creatures, SensingNature: The Sensorial ‘Consumption’ of Cetaceans. In: R. van Ginkel and A. Strating (eds.), Wildness and Sensation: Anthropology of Sinister and Sensuous Realms. Apeldoorn/Antwerpen: Het Spinhuis Publishers, pp. 398-420. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (with ThijlSunier) (2006) ‘At Your Service!’ Reflections on the Rise of Neo-Nationalism in the Netherlands . In: M. Banks and A. Gingrich (eds.), Neo-Nationalism in Europe and Beyond. Perspectives from Social Anthropology. Oxford : Berghahn, pp. 107-124.

Rob van Ginkel (2006) Three Cheers for the Fisheries Biologists… and an Anthropologist’s Oratio Pro Domo. Maritime Studies 4(2):41-42. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (with Irene Stengs) (2005) An Outsider Looking in: Jeremy Boissevain. Etnofoor 18(2):15-26. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (2005) Maritime Anthropology: Achievements and Agendas. In: Boštjan Kravanja and Matej Vranješ (eds.), MESS – Mediterranean Ethnological Summer School 6:45-78.

Rob van Ginkel (2005) Between Top-Down and Bottom-Up Governance: Dutch Beam Trawl Fishermen’s Engagements with Fisheries Management. In: T. Gray (ed.), Participation in Fisheries Governance. Dordrecht : Springer, pp. 119-139.

Rob van Ginkel (2005) Killing Giants of the Sea. Contentious Heritage and the Politics of Culture. Journal of Mediterranean Studies 15(1):71-97. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (2004) The Makah Whale Hunt and Leviathan’s Death: Reinventing Tradition and Disputing Authenticity in the Age of Modernity. Etnofoor 17(1):58-89. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (2004) Re-creating ‘Dutchness’: Cultural Colonisation in Post-War Holland. Nations and Nationalism 10(4):421-438. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (with Barbara Henkes) (2003) On Peasants and ‘Primitive Peoples’. Moments of Rapprochement and Distance between Folklore Studies and Anthropology in the Netherlands . Ethnos 68(1):112-134. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (withAlex Strating and Jojada Verrips) (2002) Trials and Tribulations of the Euromed Tribe. In: Han Vermeulenand Jean Kommers (Eds.), Tales from Academia. History of Anthropology in the Netherlands . Part I. Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik, pp. 341-363.

Rob van Ginkel (with NathalieSteins) (2001) Multi-Use Conflicts in Inshore Waters. In: D. Symes and J. Phillipson (eds.), Inshore Fisheries Management. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 257-273.

Rob van Ginkel (2001) Inshore Fishermen: Cultural Dimensions of a Maritime Occupation. In: D. Symes and J. Phillipson (eds.), Inshore Fisheries Management. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 177-193.

Rob van Ginkel (2001) Discourses on Dutchness. The Low Countries: Arts and Society in the Netherlands and Flanders . A Yearbook 9:116-123.

Rob van Ginkel(2001) The Netherlands. In: D. Symes and J. Phillipson (eds.), Inshore Fisheries Management. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 79-96.

Robvan Ginkel (1999) Contextualizing Marine Resource Use: A Case from the Netherlands . Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 1(3):223-233. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (1999) The Ways of Fishers: Cultural Dimensions of a Maritime Occupation. Europaea 5(2):21-44.

Rob van Ginkel (1999) ‘A Nice Shipload of Fish’ and Other Issues. On the Work World of Dutch Beamtrawl Fishermen. Europaea 5(2):121-142.

Rob van Ginkel (1999) The Dynamics of Fisheries: A Sensitizing Framework. In: D. Symes (ed.), Europe’s Southern Waters: Management Issues and Practice. Oxford : Blackwell Science, pp. 19-32.

Rob van Ginkel (1999) Capturing and Culturing the Commons. Public-Private Dynamics in the Dutch Oyster and Mussel Industry. In: J. Kooiman, M. van Vliet and S. Jentoft (eds.), Creative Governance. Opportunities for Fisheries in Europe . Aldershot : Ashgate, pp. 35-58.

Rob van Ginkel(1998) Observations from Within, Observations from Without: The Dutch in Anthropological Perspective. Ethnologia Europaea 28(1):67-89. [uploaded]

Robvan Ginkel (1998) The Repatriation of Anthropology: Some Observations on Endo-Ethnography. Anthropology and Medicine 5(3):251-267. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (1998) The Political Economy of Marine Resource Management. Dutch Musselmen, the State and Environmentalists. In: D. Symes (ed.), Northern Waters: Management Issues and Practice. Oxford : Blackwell Science, pp. 227-237.

Rob van Ginkel (1997) Zostera Marina in Dispute. Management Regimes in the Dutch Eelgrass Industry. In: D. Symes (ed.), Property Rights and Regulatory Systems in Fisheries. Oxford : Blackwell Science, pp. 230-243.

Rob van Ginkel (1996) Foreigners’ Views of the Dutch: Past and Present. Dutch Crossing 20(1):117-131.

Rob van Ginkel (1996) Cooperating Competitors. Texel Fishermen and Their Organizations (c. 1870-1930). Anthropological Quarterly 69(2):51-65.

Rob van Ginkel (1996) The Abundant Sea and Her Fates. Texelian Oystermen and the Marine Commons , 1700 to 1932. Comparative Studies in Society and History 38(2):218-242. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (1996) A Dutch Sodom andGomorrah . Degenerates, Moralists, and Authority in Yerseke, 1870-1914. Crime, Law and Social Change 24(3):223-239.[uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (1995) ‘Texelian at Heart’: The Articulation of Identity in a Dutch Island Society. Ethnos 60(3/4):265-286.

Rob van Ginkel (1995) Fishy Resources and Resourceful Fishers. The Marine Commons and the Adaptive Strategies of Texel Fishermen. Netherlands ’ Journal of Social Sciences 31(1):50-63. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (1994) ‘One Drop of Luck Weighs More Than a Bucketful of Wisdom’. Success and the Idiom and Ideology of Dutch Shellfish Planters. Ethnologia Europaea 24(2):155-166.

Rob van Ginkel (1994) Old ‘Sunderklaas’. A Texelian Feast as a Referent of Identity. In: J. Verrips (ed.), Transactions. Essays in Honor of Jeremy Boissevain. Amsterdam : Het Spinhuis, pp. 65-79.

Rob van Ginkel (1994) Tacking between Scylla and Charybdis. The Adaptive Dynamics of Texelian Fishermen. International Journal of Maritime History 6(1):215-229.

Rob van Ginkel (1994) Writing Culture from Within. Observations on Endo-Ethnography. Etnofoor7(1):5-23.

Rob van Ginkel (1993) Ruth Benedict on Netherlanders. Ethnologia Europaea 23(2):177-184.

Rob van Ginkel (1992) Typically Dutch... Ruth Benedict on the ‘National Character’ of Netherlanders. Netherlands ’ Journal of Social Sciences 28(1):50‑71. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (1991) The Sea of Bitterness: Political Process and Ideology in a Dutch Maritime Community. Man N.S. 26(4):691‑707. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (1991) The Musselmen of Yerseke: An Ethnohistorical Perspective. In: J.R. Durand, J. Lemoalle and J. Weber (eds.), Research and Small-Scale Fisheries/La recherche face à la pêche artisanale. 2 Vols. Paris : Editions de l’ORSTOM, pp. 491-499. [uploaded]

Rob van Ginkel (1990)Farming the Edge of the Sea: The Sustainable Development of Dutch Mussel Fishery. Maritime Anthropological Studies 3(2):49-67.

Rob van Ginkel (1990) Fishermen, Taboos and Ominous Animals: A Comparative Perspective. Anthrozoös 4(2):73‑81.

Rob van Ginkel (1989) ‘Plunderers’ into Planters: Zeeland Oystermen and the Enclosure of the Marine Commons. In: J. Boissevain and J. Verrips (eds.), Dutch Dilemmas: Anthropologists Look at the Netherlands . Assen: Van Gorcum, pp. 89-105.

Rob van Ginkel (1988) Limited Entry: Panacea or Palliative? Oystermen, State Intervention and Resource Management in a Dutch Maritime Community. Journal of Shellfish Research 7(2):309-317.

Rob van Ginkel (1987) Pigs, Priests and other Puzzles: Fishermen’s Taboos in Anthropological Perspective. Ethnologia Europaea 17(1):57-68.

ARTIKELEN EN HOOFDSTUKKEN (Nederlandstalig)

Rob van Ginkel (2010) 4 en 5 mei. In: Madelon de Keizer en Marije Plomp (red.) Een open zenuw. Hoe wij ons de Tweede Wereldoorlog herinneren. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, p. 27-38.

Rob van Ginkel (2010) Cranberry’s& konijnen. Overeilandcultuur. Het Alledaagse leven 32. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers.

Rob van Ginkel (2009) De verbeelding van ‘Hollands’ vissersvolk: Visuele cultuur en het folkloristische cliché van Marken en Volendam. Sociologie 5(1):2-26. [uploaded] 

Rob van Ginkel (2009) Dedodenakker van de ‘Duivelsberg’: Symboliek, ritueel en ideologie rond een herdenkingsplaats. In: Rob van der Laarse en Frankvan Vree (red.), Dedynamiek van de herinnering: Nederland en de Tweede Wereldoorlog ineen internationale context. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, pp. 41-65. 

Rob van Ginkel (2007) Dé boot. In: Ineke Teijmant (red.), De samenleving ligt op straat: Essays voor Léon Deben. Apeldoorn / Antwerpen: Het Spinhuis, pp. 62-65.

Rob van Ginkel ( 2004) Gezocht: identiteit. Socialisme & Democratie 61(1/2):64-73.

Rob van Ginkel (2003) Hollandse tonelen: een etnologische verkenning. In: T. de Nijs en E. Beukers (red.), Geschiedenis van Holland. Deel IIIB. Hilversum: Verloren, pp. 621-694.

Rob van Ginkel (2003) Nederlandse cultuur en identiteit – en de hobbelige wegen naar integratie. Volkshogeschoolwerk 12-19.

Rob van Ginkel (2002) (met Léon Deben en Tineke Lupi) Suburbane Dromen: Idealen en praktijk van het leven in Zoetermeer. Sociologische Gids 49(3):275-291. [uploaded] 

Rob van Ginkel (1999) ‘Een mooi schip vis’ en andere kwesties. Over de beroepswereld van kottervissers. Sociologische Gids 46(2):129-153.

Rob van Ginkel (1999) Beroepswerelden. Sociologische Gids 46(2):94-98.

Rob van Ginkel (1999) (met Barbara Henkes) Over boeren en bosjesmannen. Momenten van toenadering en distantie tussen volkskunde en volkenkunde. Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 26(1):255-281.

Rob van Ginkel (1998) Over de dans en andere ontaardingen. In: Kees Bruin et al. (red.), Mensen kijken. Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, pp. 60-62. [Speciaal nummer van Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift1998, 25(1).]

Rob van Ginkel (1998) (met Dieteke van der Ree) Over de zevende: vijftig jaar PSF-PSCW in Amsterdam. Sociologische Gids45(2):80-86.

Rob van Ginkel(1998) ‘Noodtoestand van de geest’. Culturele herkolonisering in naoorlogs Nederland. PsychologieenMaatschappij 22(2):151-162.

Rob van Ginkel (1998) Een ruggelingse toenadering: geschiedenis en antropologie. Theoretische Geschiedenis 25(1):38-43.

Rob van Ginkel (1998) Illusies van het eeuwig onveranderlijke: volkskunde en cultuurpolitiek in Nederland, 1914-1945. Volkskundig Bulletin 24(3):345-384.

Rob van Ginkel (1997) Contra dancing, pro contradans. Cultuurpolitiek en ideologie in Nederland, 1918-1955. Etnofoor 10(1/2):174-207.

Rob van Ginkel (1997) Spiegelbeeld vertel eens even...Imago en zelfbeeld van Nederlanders. In: Eric de Lange (red.), Meegaand of eigenzinnig? De Nederlandse cultuur en architectuur in internationale context. Rotterdam: NAi Uitgevers, pp. 12-18.

Rob van Ginkel (1996) Zienswijzen op Neerlands eigenheid in wording en wezen. Een bibliografische verkenning. In: K. Koch en P. Scheffer (red.), Het nut van Nederland. Opstellen over soevereiniteit en identiteit. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker,  pp. 272-286.

Rob van Ginkel (1996) Regio en religie: een Texelse casus. Transparant 7(2):16-21.

Rob van Ginkel (1996) Over de Hollandse zindelijkheid en schrobzucht. In:G. van Beek et al., Schoon en cultuur. Amsterdam: Lavold, pp. 36-55.

Rob van Ginkel ( 1996) Nederlands eigenheid in discussie. Boekmancahier 8(29):393-395.

Rob van Ginkel (1995) Antropologie van Nederland. Sociologische Gids 42(1):7-59.

Rob van Ginkel (1995) (met Lodewijk Brunt) Marginaal: Antropologenin Nederland. Sociologische Gids 42(1):4-6.

Rob van Ginkel (1995) ‘Afsluitdijk voltooid, visserlui berooid’. De strijd van Texelse vissers om Zuiderzeesteun. Holland 27(2):63-79.

Rob van Ginkel ( 1995) Eigen en vreemd,eender en anders: De conjunctuur van het nationale denken. Focaal25:159-175.

Rob van Ginkel (1994) (met anderen) De mate van wildheid en beschavinginhetwesten. Etnofoor 7(1):108-126.

Rob van Ginkel (1994) Historische antropologie: enige kanttekeningen. Tijdschrift voor sociale geschiedenis 20(2):198-206.

Rob van Ginkel (1994) Een beeld van een eiland. Reizigers over de Texelse mentaliteit, ca. 1750-1875. Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 21(3):89-114.

Rob van Ginkel (1993)...En de zee neemt. Texelse vissers in rampspoed en tegenslag. Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 19(3):84‑112.

Rob van Ginkel (1993) Paria’s of paladijnen van de zee? Texelse oestervissers en het mariene gemeengoed. Focaal 20:39‑67.

Rob van Ginkel (1992) Een Zeeuws Sodom en Gomorra. Ontaarden, moralisten en gezag in Yerseke, 1870‑1914. Tijdschrift voor Criminologie 34(2):115‑128.

Rob van Ginkel (1992) Van oestervisserij naar oesterteelt. Gevolgen voor de vissers en de dorpsgemeenschap van Yerseke inde decennia rond de eeuwwisseling. Nehalennia. Tijdschrift voor Zeeuwse geschiedenis en archeologie 91:21‑31.

Rob van Ginkel (1991) Typisch Nederlands...Ruth Benedict over het ‘nationaal karakter’ van Nederlanders. Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 18(2):37‑63.

Rob van Ginkel (1991) Ouwe Sunderklaas. Een Texels feest als baken van identiteit. Vrijetijd & Samenleving 9(3/4):59‑72.

Rob van Ginkel (1990) Vuurgebruik en landbouw in tropische regenwouden. In: J. Goudsblom et al., Varianten van vuurgebruik. Amsterdam: Publicatiereeks Sociologisch Instituut, pp. 55-77.

Rob van Ginkel(1990)Een zee van bitterheid: Factionalisme en ideologie in een Zeeuwse maritieme gemeenschap. Focaal 14:77-99.

Rob van Ginkel (1990) Ruth Benedict over Nederlanders. Etnofoor 3(2):5-16.

Rob van Ginkel (1989) ‘Eén druppel geluk is meer dan een emmer wijsheid’: Succes en ideologie in eenZeeuwsemaritieme gemeenschap. Etnofoor 2(2):16-36. 

Rob van Ginkel (1988) Synopsis van de maritieme antropologie. Focaal 7:5-39.

Rob van Ginkel (1988) Tussen wal en schip: taboes en territoriale overgangsriten in Noordatlantische vissersgemeenschappen. Etnofoor 1(2):108-127.
FIELDWORK IMAGES (Texel 2005-2006)


Participant observation aboard a beam trawler
Gutting a7-pound sole


Casual conversation in the wheelhouse of the TX1 'Cornelia'
With owner-operator Adrie Vonk (centre) and his nephew ErikVonk (photo Loes Kraan)


Plying theNorthSea (I)
The TX19 'Elisabeth Christina'  fishing off the Flamborough coast


Plying the NorthSea (III)
The TX 36 'Jan van Toon' in roughseas


Emptying the cod end aboard the TX38 'Branding IV'
Patrilateral cross-cousins Jitse and JohnBetsema untie theknot


The flatfish are in the pound
Deckhands Ron Buisman and BarryZegel inspect the catch


Anunlucky haul
Skipper-owner Guido Betsema and his cousinsJitse and John Betsema mend the net


Homebound
The TX 38 returns to her homeport after a week's fishing trip 


A Sunday view of the port of Oudeschild
Texel beam trawlers moored at the quayside 


Friday chores
The crews of the TX 38 and TX 36 (background) are checking the netsand tickler chains


A bird'seye view of the harbour
Theoblong building (centre left) is the Fishery Coop. Also visible are a dry dock and the marina.


Marking fisher identities
A fish smoking contest in the village of Oosterend, Texel 


Satellite image of Texel
The North Sea (left) and the shallow Wadden Sea (right)