Terranova

The Ethos and Luck of Deep-Sea Fisherman

Series: Social and Economic Studies
Publisher: ISER Books
Paperback : 9780919666368, 136 pages, January 1981

Description

Based on his experience as a "cookee" on a Spanish trawler fishing the Grand Banks, Zulaika focuses on the superordinate place that luck has in ordering the fishermen's conceptual thinking about their environment and the availability of fish.

Reviews

"One of the best ethnographies available on open ocean fishing." - American Anthropologist