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Injury and therapy: proletarianization in Puerto Rico's fisheries
Author(s) -
GRIFFITH DAVID,
PIZZINI MANUEL VALDÉS,
JOHNSON JEFFREY C.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1992.19.1.02a00040
Subject(s) - proletarianization , latin americans , fishing , hegemony , sociology , politics , peasant , wage labour , indigenous , economy , political science , geography , economics , ecology , agriculture , biology , archaeology , law
Peasant fishers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean typically combine fishing with wage labor to varying degrees. Certain scholars have interpreted this as a reflection of incomplete incorporation into capitalist spheres of influence, where contradictions emerge as groups attempt to maintain economic and cultural autonomy while being subordinated to capitalist relations of production. In this article we investigate the conceptual and political consequences of this process among Puerto Rican fishers. We find that fishers have appropriated the concepts of “class” and “therapy” from their participation in the formal economy and have adapted these concepts to the politics and semantics of artisanal fishing. [fishing, hegemony, semiproletarianization, Puerto Rico]