Conversations on the Beach: Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India: 2 (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 2) - Image 1

£80.58

Berghahn Books Conversations on the Beach: Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India: 2 (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 2)

Name: Conversations on the Beach: Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India: 2 (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 2)
Brand: Berghahn Books
Price: 80.47 GBP
Availability: InStock

Reference

Price History & Forecast

Last 52 days • 52 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 52 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £80 (52 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £80 - £80

Price levels: 1 different prices over 52 days

Description

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. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Hindus and Muslims in a coastal village, this book explores the fisherfolk's environmental knowledge, its transformation in a period of rapid socio-economic and political change as well as its role in dealing with the state and the science - putatively universal and objective - upon which the state's policies are claimed to be based. The book emphasises conversation as a cultural process, metaphors and figurative speech in the investigation of knowledge, as well as the use and limits of memory in conceptualising environmental change. Gotz Hoeppe is an editor of the magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft and a part-time lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Heidelberg. He studied ethnology, physics and astronomy in Gottingen, Albuquerque and Berlin and has done fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and India. The author of Why the Sky is Blue (forthcoming at Princeton University Press), Hoeppe now investigates the epistemic practices of astronomers.

Product Specifications

Brand: Berghahn Books
Format: Library Binding
ASIN: 1845450159
Category: Books > Subjects > Reference
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 January 2007
Listed Since: 15 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Berghahn Books Conversations on the Beach: Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India: 2 (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 2)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Hope: Cristina Mittermeier

Beyond Native-Speakerism: Current Explorations and Future Visions (Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication)

The Origin of Cultures: How Individual Choices Make Cultures Change (Key Questions in Anthropology)

Ethnographies for a Global Century

Meaning of Life and the Universe: Transforming

The Great Reimagining: Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland: 4 (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement, 4)

What Is Cosmopolitical Design? Design, Nature and the Built Environment

Global History: Interactions Between the Universal and the Local

What Is Cosmopolitical Design? Design, Nature and the Built Environment

Up, Down, and Sideways: Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power: 7 (Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology, 7)

Personhood in the Age of Biolegality: Brave New Law (Biolegalities)

Humanities for the Environment: Integrating knowledge, forging new constellations of practice (Routledge Environmental Humanities)

Routledge - The Politics of Well-Being - Social Thought Book

Hope for Life on Our Planet: Inspiration for Seven Generations

Development Policy: An Introduction to Objectives and Results

The World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

The Harmonisation of European Private Law: 2 (European Academy of Legal Theory Series)

Transdisciplinary Ethnography in India: Women in the Field (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

From Sky and Earth to Metaphysics: 115 (Analecta Husserliana, 115)

Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-knowing and Ethnographic Limits (Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception)

Routledge Analyzing Group Interactions Guidebook for Researchers

Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital: 82 (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology)

Women Managers in Neoliberal Japan: Gender, Precarious Labour and Everyday Lives (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series)

Education in Colonial India: Historical Insights