Kalymnos - Island of Sponge Divers, Greece (1965)

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I first visited Greece in 1965, spending a month on the island of Kalymnos. The island lies near the coast of Turkey, and it has been famous as the home of sponge divers. It was they who first discovered ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, which in the late 1950s led to the founding of underwater archaeology. I went to Kalymnos in 1965 for this reason, but as luck would have it, I ended up having my first experience doing fieldwork in cultural anthropology on the island. I met the anthropologist Russell Bernard doing his thesis research, and fortunately, I arrived in time to witness several of the activities that occurred just before the sponge divers left for several months of diving off North Africa. The annual voyage was so important that religious and military authorities came to see the divers off.
NOTE: This video is an edit of 16 mm footage I took on Kalymnos in 1965 using an old (1937) Bell & Howell 70-D camera without sound, and it was digitized by videoing it off a screen. It lacks narration and uses only free online music. But it is as far as I could get before other work intervened, and improvements will have to wait for the distant future. Suggestions are welcome! jr@johanreinhard.net
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