THE RANCH AND THE BOAT: MICROPOLITICS OF TECHNOLOGIES AND SUSTAINABILITIES AMONG THE FISHING WORKERS OF THE ISLAND OF SANTA CATARINA

Abstract

This paper is an anthropological interpretation of the unfolding of the relation between technologies and identitarian practices of the workers of small motor fishing industry in the island of Santa Catarina. It's the outcome of an audiovisual ethnography carried on from 2004 until 2011. The paper approaches symbolic forms of culture which operate in the process of construction of an engine, and the forms of sociability that result from the process. Based on the audiovisual narratives constructed in a participative way with the research group, their implications as “technology” (and as ";native science";), we approach the cultural place of this “artifact” elaborated in the work of the fishermen and the cultural actualizations that it indexes.Keywords: Fishing, technologies, identity