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Injury and therapy: proletarianization in Puerto Rico's fisheries
American ethnologist • 19 (1) • Published In 1992 • Pages: 53-74
By: Griffith, David Craig, Valdés Pizzini, Manuel, Johnson, Jeffrey C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The authors assert that peasant fishermen throughout Latin American and the Caribbean region typically combine fishing with wage labor in varying degrees. This particular behavior has been interpreted by some scholars as an indication of incomplete incorporation into capitalist spheres of influence as the result of contradictions which "... emerge as groups attempt to maintain economic and cultural autonomy while being subordinated to capitalist relations of production" (p. 53). This article attempts to show how the political and conceptual consequences of this process take place among Puerto Rican fishermen. Griffith et al. conclude that the fishermen, as the result of their participation in the general economy, have utilized the terms of "class" and "therapy" and have adapted these concepts to the politics and semantics of fishing.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Adjustment processes
- Life history materials
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Fishing
- Production and supply
- Labor supply and employment
- Ownership and control of capital
- Cooperative organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Puerto Ricans (Island)
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Caribbean
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- John Beierle; 1993, 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1987-1989
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Puerto Rico
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] David Griffith, Manuel Valdés Pizzini, Jeffrey C. Johnson
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74644326
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Rico--Fishing