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10.4000/aa.4945

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10.4000/aa.4945

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The life and death of the guayamuns: anthropology within manguezal boundaries

Abstract

This article explores the relational meshworks of co-existence of the blue land crabs (Cardisoma guanhumi) with fishermen in Northeastern Brazilian shore. It also presents frictions in the production of mangrove landscapes, including contaminating industrial and agroindustrial infrastructure as well as the influence of state control and planification in the lives of blue land crabs and its fishers. The analysis includes crab fisheries in a diversity of situations related to the notion of limit: crabs living in a transition between land and water, and spilling over the boundaries of protected areas; life of fishers in the limits of informal economy and political visibility, who have the mangrove as household safety; the limiting situation of the future of mangrove forests and of the existence of crabs and its fishers; and the limitations of the State in dealing with policies that join diversity of modes of existence and creativity in environmental policy-making. Articulating these limits, we indicate the need of imagining new strategies to assure the good living of multispecies collectives that shape the coastal environments, and we introduce the claim of fishers organizations for regularization of fisheries territories.

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