Listening to Sea Lions

Preface
Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Chapter 1: Climates of Change and the Ways of Empathetic Ethnography
Chapter 2: Wild West Galapagos: Isabela’s Fishing Community Angles for Tourism Pie in the Land of Darwin
Chapter 3: Rain and Tears in the Fishing Camps: Merluza Boom to Bust in Patagonia
Chapter 4: The Dance of Macha Divers and Waders around El Niño’s Flood
Chapter 5: Puerto Aldea: Caleta Life in Navy War-Game Waters
Chapter 6: The Goliath in Iquique: Industrial Fisheries
Chapter 7: Sea Wolves: Artisanal Fishermen of the Rural and Urban Caletas
Chapter 8: Conclusions: Coastal Ethnography Given the Eddies of Climate Change
Appendix: Marine Life Names in Latin
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author

I highly recommend Sarah Meltzoff’s book, a fantastically rich ethnography drawn from a quarter century of fieldwork, visits, and relationships along the western coast of South America. It provides a powerful account of the long-term issues affecting coastal communities and the marine resources they depend upon. . . .This book is necessary reading for scientists, professionals, students, and officials on all sides of the fisheries spectrum. . . .Meltzoff favours clarity and lightness of prose, which make it very accessible. This is a powerful asset of this work, as marine issues are transdisciplinary by nature and there is an urgent need for such extensive research to be read by a wide variety of scholars, practitioners, and students. . . .The book effortlessly includes reflections on the process of ethnographic research and is thus also an excellent resource for teaching ethnographic methodology.