Fishing on the Southern Brazil: environments and social contexts

Abstract

This proposal aims to reflect on the fisherman's way of life in the extreme South Brazil. For decades the socio-anthropology of fishing has cemented the “caiçara” of the southeastern coast and the Amazonian riverine as the identities of the Brazilian fisherman. The different environments, territories and materialities point to a distinct fisherman's way of life for the South Brazilian coast - between Santa Marta Cape/SC and Chuí/RS. To this end, an environmental characterization will be presented accompanied by a review of the production of fishing socio-anthropology and, finally, the ethnographic works will provide the data for the interpretation of the fisherman's way of life in the extreme south of Brazil.