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Conversations on the Beach: Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India / Edition 1
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Conversations on the Beach: Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India / Edition 1
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Conversations on the Beach: Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India / Edition 1
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Hindus and Muslims in a coastal village, this book explores the fisherfolk's environmental knowledge, its transformation in a period of rapid socio-economic and political change as well as its role in dealing with the state and the science - putatively universal and objective - upon which the state's policies are claimed to be based. The book emphasises conversation as a cultural process, metaphors and figurative speech in the investigation of knowledge, as well as the use and limits of memory in conceptualising environmental change.