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Author Meltzoff, Sarah K

Title Listening to sea lions : currents of change from Galapagos to Patagonia / Sarah Keen Meltzoff
Published Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2013

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 271 p.)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-259) and index
Notes English
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Subject Human ecology -- Pacific Coast (South America)
Marine ecology -- Pacific Coast (South America)
Coastal ecology -- Pacific Coast (South America)
Climatic changes -- Pacific Coast (South America)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Climatic changes
Coastal ecology
Ecology
Human ecology
Marine ecology
SUBJECT El Niño Current. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041456
Pacific Coast (South America) -- Environmental conditions
Subject Pacific Ocean -- El Niño Current
South America -- Pacific Coast
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021678990
ISBN 9780759122376
0759122377
9781299613775
1299613772
0759122369
9780759122369