Dual classification revisited: Rodney Needham and vertical asymmetry aboard Scottish trawlers

Abstract Drawing on ethnographic data collected while working as a deckhand two Scottish trawlers, this article analyses the spatialisation of social, religious, and economic inequalities that marked relations between crew members they hunted for prawns in North Sea. Moreover, it explores these wider feature life Gamrie, Aberdeenshire, Brethren Presbyterian fishing village riven by disparities wealth religion. Inequalities identified fishermen at sea mirrored those residents onshore, resulting boats being experienced small floating villages. work Rodney Needham, suggests asymmetries can be traced along vertical axis, with greater to lesser religiosity moving from top/above bottom/below. The seeks understand presence persistence hierarchies land, revisiting dual classification within anthropological theory.