Being Ethical Among Vezo People - Fisheries, Livelihoods, and Conservation in Madagascar

In Being Ethical among Vezo People, Frank Muttenzer analyzes environmental change in reef ecosystems of southwest Madagascar and the impacts of globalized fishery markets on Vezo people's material well-being. Muttenzer describes fishers' perceptions of the physical environment in the context of changing livelihood and ritual practices.

List of contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Ecological Psychology and the Anthropology of Well-Being

Part I - Fishing Livelihoods

Chapter 1 - Luck with Marriage: Being Ethical among Ritually Constituted Persons

Chapter 2 - The Group Ethos: Human Affordances of the Sea Cucumber Fishery

Chapter 3 - Knowing How to Fish: Scarcity, Markets and Wishful Thinking

Chapter 4 - The Unenclosed Commons: What Goes Without Saying among Octopus Gleaners

Part II- Moral Luck

Chapter 5 - The Blue Growth Narrative: Assigning Blame for Resource Depletion

Chapter 6 - Geopolitics of the Marine Frontier: Taboo and Sacrifice in the Barren Isles

Chapter 7 - Fishing Magic and Shared Doubt: Seasonal Migrants' Ritual Cycle

Chapter 8 - The Reliability of Oracles: A Pledge to Confirm What the Spirits Say

Conclusion: Well-Being, Ecology, and Moral Disagreement

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

About the author

Frank Muttenzer is lecturer of social anthropology at the University of Lucerne.

Summary

In Being Ethical among Vezo People, Frank Muttenzer analyzes environmental change in reef ecosystems of southwest Madagascar and the impacts of globalized fishery markets on Vezo people’s material well-being. Muttenzer describes fishers’ perceptions of the physical environment in the context of changing livelihood and ritual practices.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Muttenzer
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781498593298
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9329-8
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society; Anthropology of Well-Being: In
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Madagascar, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, The environment, Social and cultural anthropology