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Fishers at work, workers at sea : a Puerto Rican journey through labor and refuge /

Small-scale fishing, a house-hold based enterprise in Puerto Rico, rarely provides sufficient income for a family, but it anchors their culture and sense of themselves within that culture. Even when family members must engage in wage work to supplement house-hold income, they think of themselves as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Griffith, David, 1951-
Otros Autores: Valdés Pizzini, Manuel, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Divided selves: Domestic production and wage labor in Puerto Rico and anthropology
  • Palatable coercion: Fishing in Puerto Rican history
  • Puerto Rican fisheries
  • Chiripas: Working class opportunity and semiproletarianization
  • Injury and therapy
  • Road less traveled: Proletarianization and its discontents
  • Power games: Work versus leisure along Puerto Rico's coast
  • fragments of refuge
  • References
  • Index
  • Photographs follow page 120.