Is Commercial Fishing a Traditional Pursuit? : Technological Development of the Commercial Salmon Fishery and Adaptation by Kwakwaka'wakw Commercial Fishers

• TACHIKAWA Akihito

  Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mie University

抄録

For aboriginal commercial fishers on the Northwest Coast, the history of commercial salmon fishing is far shorter than traditional subsistence fishing. Despite this, they often recount that commercial fishing is their tradition. While the content and background of this narrative has not been addressed by anthropologists, I believe the following premises dominate. First, the two activities are both recollected as "lost glories." Next, whether fish is sold or consumed as food is not significant whilst aboriginal fishers emphasize that they are "people of the sea" in daily communication with other peoples. Put strongly, such interpretations, centered on ethnicity and nostalgia, presuppose that aboriginal peoples manipulate recognition on the epistemological level. Though I do not deny these interpretations, I suggest the possibility of another interpretation from my research among the Kwakwaka'wakw fishers - that they "traditionalize" commercial fishing on a practical level.

収録刊行物

• Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology

  Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology 8 (0), 29-52, 2007

  日本文化人類学会

キーワード

• Aboriginal peoples
• Northwest Coast
• Kwakwaka'wakw
• commercial salmon fishery
• labor system
• apprentice system
• traditionalization
• routinization
• bricoleur

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205787274752
• NII論文ID: 110006650334
• DOI: 10.14890/jrca.8.0_29
• ISSN: 24240494
• ISSN: 24325112
• 本文言語コード: en
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