Strategic procurement of fish by the pum�: A South American ?fishing culture?

Gragson, Theodore L.

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“…Nonetheless, Gragson (1992a) also reported that in some native cultures such as the Ciri Khonome Pumé, which inhabits flooded lands in Venezuela, women engaged in some types of fishing but not others. According to Gragson (1992a), women fished at the shallowest and hence safest places compared to those fished by men. Likewise, our study found that women, contrary to men, pursued fishing only at the safest fishing places.…”

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Inland fisheries of the Mayan Zone in Quintana Roo, Mexico: Using a combined approach to fishery assessment for data-sparse fisheries

Arce-Ibarra

Charles

2008

Fisheries Research

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Inland fisheries of the Mayan Zone in Quintana Roo, Mexico: Using a combined approach to fishery assessment for data-sparse fisheries

Arce-Ibarra

Charles

2008

Fisheries Research

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“…Fishing generally has received less attention than hunting in the analysis of subsistence economies (Gragson 1991(Gragson , 1992Hames 1989;Palsson 1991).^ This neglect cannot simply be attributed to fishing being of lesser economic significance; it frequently is not. As Kent (1989:5,9) noted, however, even where fishing is the dominant source of protein for a community, hunting -and the meat procured thereby -is commonly accorded greater value by local people.…”

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“…Beckeiman , 1991Chemela 1985Chemela . 1987Gragson 1991Gragson , 1992Stocks 1983), a few from elsewhere (eg. Kuchikura 1988;Pagezy 1988;Watson 1982).…”

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“…level, these address the relative values of, and the relationship between, fishing and hunting (Beckerman 1983a;Gragson 1991Gragson , 1992Kuchikura 1988). More specific studies deal with such questions as choice of fishing strategies and techniques (Gragson 1991;Ichikawa 1985), choice of fishing locations and the effect of previous activities on such choices (Bennett 1991;Stocks 1983) or the duration of fishing expeditions (Beckerman 1983a).…”

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“…More specific studies deal with such questions as choice of fishing strategies and techniques (Gragson 1991;Ichikawa 1985), choice of fishing locations and the effect of previous activities on such choices (Bennett 1991;Stocks 1983) or the duration of fishing expeditions (Beckerman 1983a). Whatever the particular focus of study, however, the emphasis is on the explanatory role of ecological variables, on the relative costs and benefits of production.…”

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Fishing at Gwaimasi: the interaction of social and ecological factors in influencing subsistence behaviour

Minnegal¹

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Fishing at Gwaimasi: the interaction of social and ecological factors in influencing subsistence behaviourThis treatise describes fishing behaviour of people living at the village of Gwaimasi in the interior lowlands of Papua New Guinea. The concern is not with fishing as such but wdth the way in which social and ecological factors interact to influence behaviour. Iargue that an adequate explanation for behaviour must incorporate both dimensions, and suggest a conceptual basis for achieving this. The study then illustrates how at least one aspect of social organization, the size of resource-sharing groups, could be incorporated within a frame of analysis -evolutionary ecology -that has typically focussed on the explanatory significance of ecological factors.The primary thesis asserts that the probability of a particular pattern of behaviour being reproduced depends on both social and ecological factors. Variation in either domain can be expected to affect the kinds of behaviour observed, but the two domains do not affect behaviour in the same way. Ecological factors constrain production, the material outcome of action; social factors constrain consumption, the use that can be made of that outcome. The two domains are complementary, not contradictory, in their influence; in as much as production and consumption themselves are two facets of any action, ecology and society should be seen as mutually constitutive systems mediated by the actor.Evolutionary ecologists have tended to analyse constraints on production, particularly extrinsic constraints on production, in explaining behavioural variability.While constraints on consumption are not ignored, they are usually discussed only in terms of the intrinsic requirements of the actor. I argue that consumption, like production, is subject to extrinsic constraints; the use that an individual can make of a particular outcome of action may depend on the actions of others. In particular, where a resource has declining marginal value, the amount that is likely to be received from others will limit the amount that an individual can usefully procure; as a corollary, the iii expectation of having to distribute produce among others will increase the amount that can be usefully procured. In each case, the effect will depend on the size of the resourcesharijig group.These arguments are illustrated by analyses of the fishing behaviour of people atGwaimasi over a period of 57 weeks, Eariy chapters set the scene for those analyses, introduce the actors and position fishing within their broader subsistence arrangements.The community was small and isolated, the people hunter-horticulturalists using about 50km^ for subsistence. Skulls of neariy all fish caught within that area during the survey were purchased, and details recorded of fisher, technique, location and context of capture.In addition, records were kept of where individuals were based within the local area each day. Analyses of these data indicate that whether people chose to fish, as well as where and how they fish...

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Archaeological hunting patterns of Amazonian horticulturists: The Guarani example

Acosta¹,

Carbonera

Loponte³

2019

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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We analyse the hunting patterns based on faunal records of horticultural groups from the Atlantic Forest grouped in the Guarani archaeological unit, which are the material and behavioural expression of populations of Amazon origin who practiced slash‐and‐burn agriculture in the Atlantic Forest of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay. The analysed temporal block ranges from ca. 1373 to 1698 of the Common Era. The characteristics of the faunal assemblages are the high level of the taxa richness and the equitability, where no taxa predominate over the others. The capture decision was probably guided primarily by the weight of the potential prey (preferentially terrestrial mammals) considering thresholds above 10 kg per individual, which have provided the greatest biomass. Nevertheless, small preys are numerically important and taxonomically very diverse. Fish mostly comprise small individuals, with no taxonomic selectivity. The hunted animals were transported completely to the villages. Terrestrial prey and fish were preponderantly boiled in ceramic containers. All the best ranked preys locally available were hunted, so in the long term, there were no exceptions to consumption. The hunting strategies are concordant with historical and ethnographic observations that include a broad diet with low taxonomic selectivity, small foraging range, and garden hunting.

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Strategic procurement of fish by the pum�: A South American ?fishing culture?

Cited by 13 publications

References 18 publications

Inland fisheries of the Mayan Zone in Quintana Roo, Mexico: Using a combined approach to fishery assessment for data-sparse fisheries

Inland fisheries of the Mayan Zone in Quintana Roo, Mexico: Using a combined approach to fishery assessment for data-sparse fisheries

Fishing at Gwaimasi: the interaction of social and ecological factors in influencing subsistence behaviour

Archaeological hunting patterns of Amazonian horticulturists: The Guarani example

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