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Fisherman’s Blues: A West African Community at Sea

byAnna Badkhen

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. Fisherman’s Blues combines scientific research, fieldwork, and carefully chosen case studies, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of social science, Fisherman’s Blues explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. By the end, the west african community at sea emerges as a layered story of competing motives, unintended results, and choices made under pressure.

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Publication date

Mar 12, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9781594634871