{"product_id":"being-ethical-among-vezo-people-9781498593298","title":"Being Ethical among Vezo People","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeing Ethical among Vezo People analyzes environmental change in reef ecosystems of southwest Madagascar and the impacts of global fishery markets on Vezo people's material well-being. The ethnography describes fishers' changing perceptions of the physical environment in the context of livelihood and ritual practices and discusses their shared understandings of how Vezo persons should live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommunity marine protected areas now restrict access to the unenclosed reef commons. Each village is responsible for managing its octopus fishery with a temporal closure. Frank Muttenzer argues that the participants' apparent willingness to improve livelihoods does not commit them to a conservationist ethos. Vezo people know that fish, octopus and sea cucumbers became scarce after they started selling these products to seafood processing and exporting companies. To cope with resource depletion they migrate to distant resource rich marine frontiers, target fast growing species\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Ecological Psychology and the Anthropology of Well-Being\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I – Fishing Livelihoods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 – Luck with Marriage: Being Ethical among Ritually Constituted Persons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 – The Group Ethos: Human Affordances of the Sea Cucumber Fishery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 – Knowing How to Fish: Scarcity, Markets and Wishful Thinking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 – The Unenclosed Commons: What Goes Without Saying among Octopus Gleaners\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II- Moral Luck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 – The Blue Growth Narrative: Assigning Blame for Resource Depletion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 – Geopolitics of the Marine Frontier: Taboo and Sacrifice in the Barren Isles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 – Fishing Magic and Shared Doubt: Seasonal Migrants’ Ritual Cycle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 – The Reliability of Oracles: A Pledge to Confirm What the Spirits Say \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Well-Being, Ecology, and Moral Disagreement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040865386839,"sku":"9781498593298","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498593298.jpg?v=1750948112","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/being-ethical-among-vezo-people-9781498593298","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}