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The Structural and Cultural Construction of Race in the Handline Fishing Industry on South Africa's Western Cape Coast

The Structural and Cultural Construction of Race in the Handline Fishing Industry on South Africa's Western Cape Coast

Gates, James

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AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0530004054
ISBN13: 9780530004051
Publisher: Dissertation Discovery Company
Published: May 31 2019
Pages: 312
Weight: 2.23
Height: 0.75 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Abstract:

The primary aim of this dissertation is to describe how race relations are socially constructed and historically situated through an analysis of the relationships between coloured and white fishers in South Africa's handline fishing industry. In-depth interviews with 102 handline ski-boat skippers on the Western Cape coast serve as the core data for this analysis. My primary aim was achieved by interpreting the images skippers use to describe themselves and others, and analyzing of the skippers' perceived social networks. This dissertation moves beyond common political and macro-economic analyses of race relations to in-depth exploration of the ways individuals structure social relations by race in a historically specific context. I show how fishing is embedded in a host of social and informal economic relations. Socioeconomic relations off the boat directly impact social relations on the boat.

Race and ethnicity are historically specific and socially constructed categories of group differentiation. Race and ethnicity are compared as analytical tools in the methodological tool chest of social analysts. Specific attention is paid to the role that anthropology played and continues to play in the use of these concepts as analytical

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