| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface -- Divided selves: Domestic production and wage labor in Puerto Rico and anthropology -- Palatable coercion: Fishing in Puerto Rican history -- Puerto Rican fisheries -- Chiripas: Working class opportunity and semiproletarianization -- Injury and therapy -- Road less traveled: Proletarianization and its discontents -- Power games: Work versus leisure along Puerto Rico's coast -- fragments of refuge -- References -- Index -- Photographs follow page 120 |
| Summary |
Small-scale fishing, a house-hold based enterprise in Puerto Rico, rarely provides sufficient income for a family, but it anchors their culture and sense of themselves within that culture. Even when family members must engage in wage work to supplement house-hold income, they think of themselves as fishers. Liche typifies these wage workers: "When he was quite young, he left the island to struggle in other lands, to work, to raise a family, to send home the money he earned. Ten, twenty, thirty years passed ... during which he did not once fish or even see the ocean. But in a boat-building f |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Fishers -- Puerto Rico
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Fishers -- Puerto Rico -- Interviews
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Fisheries -- Puerto Rico
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Wages -- Fishers -- Puerto Rico
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Household surveys -- Puerto Rico
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Puerto Ricans -- Florida
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Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York
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Migrant labor -- Puerto Rico
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Migrant labor -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
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Fisheries
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Fishers
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Household surveys
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Migrant labor
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Puerto Ricans
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Wages -- Fishers
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Fischer
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Florida
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New York (State) -- New York
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Puerto Rico
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United States
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Puerto Rico
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Valdés Pizzini, Manuel, 1954-
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| ISBN |
9781439907634 |
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1439907633 |
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