Meltzoff, Sarah Keene

Listening to sea lions : currents of change from Galapagos to Patagonia / Escuchando a los lobos marinos : corrientes de cambio de Galápagos a Patagonia Sarah Keene Meltzoff. - Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, 2013. - xx, 271 p. ; il., mapas ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-259) and index.

Climates of change and the ways of emphatic ethnography -- Wild west Galápagos: Isabela's fishing community angles for tourism pie 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 Niño'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.


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Human ecology--Pacific Coast (South America)
Marine ecology--Pacific Coast (South America)
Coastal ecology--Pacific Coast (South America)
Climatic changes--Pacific Coast (South America)


El Niño Current
Pacific Coast (South America)--Environmental conditions.

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