Hombres y mujeres del agua: adaptación y transformación del medio en la cultura anfibia Resumen Esta investigación muestra cómo los habitantes de La Mojana sucreña, en el norte de Colombia, viven, estacionalmente, bajo las inclemencias de las inundaciones. Para adaptarse a esta situación han modificado su estilo de vida, llevando así una supervivencia catalogada como anfibia. La geografía de esta región se pone de manifiesto por los cambios que el hombre hace a un medio físico, que por lo general se ensaña con él. Se tuvo en cuenta la observación directa y la apreciación de algunos integrantes de la comunidad de La Mojana (charlas, entrevistas, encuestas), con visitas de campo en dos épocas del año: sequía y lluvias. Se valoró especialmente cada una de las condiciones de vida y el accionar cultural de los habitantes. Lo que se pretendió entonces fue reconocer cómo el ser humano, bajo ciertas circunstancias de inundación, se ve en la necesidad de construir su propio espacio cultural para la convivencia, sobrevivencia y supervivencia. Abstract The current research shows how the inhabitants of the Mojana sucreña, in the northern region of Colombia, seasonally live under the inclement flooding. In order to adapt themselves to this situation, people from this region have changed their lifestyle, carrying a survival life mode classified as amphibious. The geography of this region reveals itself because of the changes that the human being makes to the phyisical environment, which generaly preys on him. Direct observations and points of view of some members of La Mojarra community, including talks, interviews and surveys, were applied. Field visits during the dry and wet season were done, taking into consideration the living conditions and cultural behavior of the inhabitants. With this project, it was intended to recognize how the human being, under flooding circumstances, sees himself in the need of constructing his own cultural space for cohabitation and survival.

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This article describes sources of work satisfaction and dissatisfaction among a sample of 86 California women entering “nontraditional” (i.e., male-dominated) skilled and semiskilled occupations in 1975. Respondents were interviewed at that time, and again in 1976-1977. The data indicate that the challenge of surviving and succeeding in a nontraditional job—mastering skills, increasing self-confidence, and getting along with (often troublesome) male coworkers and supervisors—was the predominant concern of the respondents in the first year, and was their primary source of both satisfaction and dissatisfaction in their work. In contrast, those women who remained in a nontraditional job one year later had become less concerned with these aspects of the job, and more concerned with the traditional sources of satisfaction and dissatisfaction common to blue-collar workers, e.g., the nature of the work itself, working conditions, and relations with management. The findings also suggest that by the second year the perceived advantages of nontraditional work had been counteracted to some extent by the dissatisfactions inherent in those jobs—dissatisfactions that the respondents became more aware of as their nontraditional status in the workplace diminished.

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