approach instead of, or at least as a supplement to a land-based approach. It deals with how people past and present related to, dealt and deal with this 'sea of seas'. The sea-focus serves to counteract the terra-centrism of the vast majority of Mediterranean studies. Chapters include the connecting sea with special reference to transport of people, goods, meanings, ideas, travel, warfare, piracy, and trade. There is a chapter on amphibian towns as hubs in networks, symbiosis of sea and urban

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... pace, porosity as a vital condition, anti-structure, the maritime port as cradle of globalization and Mediterranean 'cosmopolitanism'. We have the dividing, devouring sea, the unpredictable sea of migrants, seamen and fishermen. There is of course the benevolent sea of tourists and the false image of the feeding sea, most fishermen always having to combine fishing with other ways of making a living. And a final chapter on imagining the Middle Sea with sections on painting and poetry, songs and filmmaking, a sea that has become an inseparable part of Western civilization with imagecreating icons such as Dali and Fellini, Renoir and Kafavis. The Mediterranean is indeed thousand fascinating things at the same time. It is an area and a sea that invites multi-disciplinary research and should be part of a truly global anthropology.