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Conversations on the Beach: Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India

Conversations on the Beach: Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India

Hoeppe, Gotz

Hardcover

Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, Book 2

AnthropologyEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 1845450159
ISBN13: 9781845450151
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jan 1 2007
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Already on the margins of an agrarian society, the marine fisherfolk of the South Indian state of Kerala are faced with a severe environmental problem: overfishing. The actions of trawlers and industrial fishing ships, it seems, have caused the resources on which they depend to dwindle rapidly. Yet what may appear to be a clear-cut case of cause, effect and responsibility turns out to be a complex issue. Local perceptions of the environment are deeply enmeshed with notions of morality, the self and people's understanding of their place in society. Overfishing is one of several environmental issues that bring into focus parallel knowledges, giving rise to contradictory views on what the problems are, whether changes are good or bad, and how they are to be remedied. As the fisherfolk confront the state, a discourse develops on what is innate to the environment, or natural, and on what its malleability entails.

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