Climates of change and the ways of empathic ethnography -- Wild West Galapagos: Isabela's fishing community angles for tourism poie in the land of Darwin -- Rain and tears in the fishing camps: Merluza boom to bust in Patagonia -- The dance of Macha divers and waders around El Nino's flood -- Puerto Aldea: Caleta life in Navy war-game waters -- The Goliath in Iquique: industrial fisheries -- Sea wolves: Artisanal fishermen of the rural and urban Caletas -- Conclusions: Coastal ethnography given the eddies of climate change -- Appendix: Marine life names in Latin
Summary
From the Galapagos to the depths of Patagonia and up along the stark desert coast of Chile, Listening to Sea Lions' empathic ethnography carries the reader directly into the heart of the ocean world of Latino coastal people. Sea lions are the fellow denizens in nature who share the perpetual changes and are seen as metaphoric selves. Meltzoff uses storytelling rather than explicit theory to help explain local struggles and survival strategies wrought by extreme El Niño events and shifting political cli
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-259) and index
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