essay
Let's go fishing
Kiribati: a changing atoll culture • [suva, Fiji] • Published In 1985 • Pages: 141-153
By: Onorio, Barerei.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document covers the social and technical organization of fishing and associated marine hunting activities in Kiribati. Underscoring fishing as an integral aspect of Kiribati culture, the author laments how the sector is underperforming for a host of reasons. The most important is the traditional attitude toward fishing as a leisure pursuit rather than as economically gainful work. When fishermen say "let’s go fishing" they mean let’s go have a good time together, which has had the long-term effect of perpetuating inefficient technologies and labor wastage. For maps, glossary, and bibliographysee Mason (1985).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fishing
- Fishing gear
- Labor supply and employment
- Division of labor by gender
- Boats
- Transmission of skills
- Activities of the aged
- Diet
- Research and development
- Income and demand
- Individual enterprise
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kiribati
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Micronesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Educator
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1983-1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1983-1985
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kiribati (Gilbert) Islands, Republic of Kiribati
- NotesAdditional notes
- Barerei Onorio ; photographs by Tony Whincup
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86214124
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kiribati--Social life and customs
- Kiribati--Social conditions