The state and small-scale fisheries in Puerto Rico /

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Author / Creator:PeĢrez, Ricardo.
Imprint:Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2005.
Description:xix, 218 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:New directions in Puerto Rican studies
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5999845
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ISBN:0813029015 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-195) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Felix V. Matos Rodriguez
  • 1. Memory and modernity : Puerto Rico's small-scale fisheries in anthropological perspective
  • 2. Tales from the seas : anthropological renderings of maritime lives and work
  • 3. Under the banner of development : introducing modernity to Puerto Rico's fisheries
  • 4. Flexible communities : transformations of rural economic production
  • 5. Precarious livelihoods : small-scale fishing and the reproduction of household economies
  • 6. Fragments of memory : discourses of development, industrial labor, and the environment
  • 7. Going with the flow? : ethnography, alternatives, and politics of postdevelopment studies
  • Epilogue : Playa de Guayanilla, El Faro, and Encarnacion then and now.