Of fishes and farmers: ethnicity and resource use in coastal Palawan [Philippines]
2003
Eder, J.F. (Arizona State Univ., Tempe, Arizona (USA). Dept. of Anthropology)
Along Palawan's coasts both fishing and farming are important economic activities. Fishers and farmers live in close residential proximity and enjoy significant interdependencies with each other and with the wider coastal ecosystems they jointly inhabit. Here also one may observe significant associations between ethnolinguistic background and occupation in particular, Cuyonon, Agutaynen, and other people of Palawan origin tend to emphasize farming, while Cebuanos, Warays, Masbatenos, and other people of Visayan origin tend to emphasize fishing. But in the practice of everyday life, fishing, farming, and other economic activities are combined and recombined in countless ways within and between households of greatly varied geographic and ethnic background. This characteristic occupational multiplicity of coastal communities and residents- something is suspected, that is also quite common elsewhere in the Philippines- merits greater and more systematic attention. In particular, it was argued in this paper that municipal fishing needs to be placed squarely in the context of its considerable household and community-level interdependence with farming and other production activities in the coastal zone. It is from this interdependence, more than from fishing and farming themselves, that are presently the emerging alternative livelihoods so badly needed by fishers and farmers alike in the coastal Philippines
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