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Being Ethical among Vezo People
Fisheries, Livelihoods, and Conservation in Madagascar
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2020
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Being Ethical among Vezo People analyzes environmental change in reef ecosystems of southwest Madagascar and the impacts of global fishery markets on Vezo people’s well-being. The ethnography describes fishers’ changing perceptions of the physical environment in the context of livelihood and ritual practices and discusses their shared understandings of how Vezo persons should live.
Under new marine protected area regulations, each village is responsible for managing its octopus fishery with a temporal closure. Frank Muttenzer argues that locals’ willingness to improve well-being does not commit them to a conservationist ethos. To cope with resource depletion Vezo people migrate to distant resource-rich marine frontiers, target fast growing species, and perform rituals that purport to affect their luck in fishing and marine foraging. But they doubt conservationists’ opinion that coral reef ecosystems can be managed for sustainable yield.
The richly documented, elegantly theorized, and fresh ethnographic outlook on the Vezo addresses current issues in marine ecology and conservation, small-scale fisheries, and the semiotics of rural livelihoods and human well-being, particularly its expression in ritual. It will be of strong interest to environmental scientists, Madagascar specialists, and anthropology generalists alike; particularly those who are interested in what the modes of engagement with the environment of foraging peoples can teach us about the human condition at large, and the nature-culture debates in particular.
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9329-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9330-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
212
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Preface No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1 Luck with Marriage No access
Chapter 2 The Group Ethos No access
Chapter 3 Knowing How to Fish No access
Chapter 4 The Unenclosed Commons No access
Chapter 5 The Blue Growth Narrative No access
Chapter 6 Geopolitics of the Marine Frontier No access
Chapter 7 Fishing Magic and Shared Doubt No access
