Conversations on the beach : fishermen's knowledge, metaphor and environmental change in South India / Götz Hoeppe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoeppe, Götz, 1969-

Hoeppe, Gèotz, Author.

Series:

Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology Series

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 2

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology Conversations on the beach

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maritime anthropology--India--Kerala.

Maritime anthropology.

Traditional fishing--India--Kerala.

Traditional fishing.

Ethnobiology--India--Kerala.

Ethnobiology.

Indigenous peoples--Ecology--India--Kerala.

Indigenous peoples.

Traditional ecological knowledge--India--Kerala.

Traditional ecological knowledge.

Maritime anthropology--Ecology--India--Kerala.

Indigenous peoples--Kerala--India.

Kerala (India)--Environmental conditions.

Kerala (India).

Kerala (India)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 208 p. ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

On the beach with Krishnankutti

West and east

Fishing for knowledge

Sea and fishes

Socialising the sea

State interventions

Knowledge change.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-197) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-84545-015-9

OCLC:

1147298802