Description: In Being Ethical among Vezo People, Frank Muttenzer analyzes environmental change in reef ecosystems of southwest Madagascar and the impacts of globalized fishery markets on Vezo people's material well-being. Muttenzer describes fishers' perceptions of the physical environment...
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"Being Ethical among Vezo People is a thoughtful and original approach to one of the most pressing problems on the anthropological agenda, people's relations to their environment and the threats it faces. It takes the anthropology of ethics into fascinating new terrain." --Webb Keane, University of Michigan; author of Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories
"This monograph presents a rich and fascinating ethnography of Vezo traditional fishers living on the wild and unforgiving coast of southwest Madagascar. Muttenzer's focus on the interactions between Vezo people and their environment, and the ways these are mediated through ritual, provides highly fertile ground for research in a part of the world experiencing multiple simultaneous forces of change." --Anthropos