Fisherman's blues, a West African community at sea, Anna Badkhen
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Label
Fisherman's blues, a West African community at sea, Anna Badkhen
Language
eng
Illustrations
mapsillustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Fisherman's blues
Oclc number
994533485
Responsibility statement
Anna Badkhen
Sub title
a West African community at sea
Summary
"An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed. The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere. For centuries, fishermen have launched their pirogues from the Senegalese port of Joal, where the fish used to be so plentiful a man could dip his hand into the grey-green ocean and pull one out as big as his thigh. But in an Atlantic decimated by overfishing and climate change, the fish are harder and harder to find. Here, Badkhen discovers, all boundaries are permeable--between land and sea, between myth and truth, even between storyteller and story. Fisherman's Blues immerses us in a community navigating a time of unprecedented environmental, economic, and cultural upheaval with resilience, ingenuity, and wonder"--, Provided by publisher
Creator
Subject
- Economic history
- Senegal + Joal-Fadiout
- Climatic changes + Economic aspects -- Senegal
- Ecological disturbances -- Atlantic Ocean
- Climatic changes + Economic aspects
- Senegal
- Atlantic Ocean
- Joal-Fadiout (Senegal) -- Social life and customs
- Fishers
- SOCIAL SCIENCE + Anthropology + Cultural
- Social conditions
- Manners and customs
- Joal-Fadiout (Senegal) -- Economic conditions
- NATURE + Ecosystems & Habitats + Oceans & Seas
- Joal-Fadiout (Senegal) -- Social conditions
- Fishing villages -- Senegal -- Joal-Fadiout
- Ecological disturbances
- Fishers -- Senegal -- Joal-Fadiout
- TRAVEL -- Africa -- West
- Fishing villages
Content
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- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification4
- Creator1
- Subject20
- Economic history
- Senegal + Joal-Fadiout
- Climatic changes + Economic aspects -- Senegal
- Ecological disturbances -- Atlantic Ocean
- Climatic changes + Economic aspects
- Senegal
- Atlantic Ocean
- Joal-Fadiout (Senegal) -- Social life and customs
- Fishers
- SOCIAL SCIENCE + Anthropology + Cultural
- Social conditions
- Manners and customs
- Joal-Fadiout (Senegal) -- Economic conditions
- NATURE + Ecosystems & Habitats + Oceans & Seas
- Joal-Fadiout (Senegal) -- Social conditions
- Fishing villages -- Senegal -- Joal-Fadiout
- Ecological disturbances
- Fishers -- Senegal -- Joal-Fadiout
- TRAVEL -- Africa -- West
- Fishing villages
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1