A sócio-antropologia das comunidades de pescadores marítimos no Brasil

Abstract

Following a brief history of Brazilian fishing activities, this article signals the importance of the social sciences and particularly of sociology, anthropology, history and geography in the analysis of fishing communities along the Brazilian coast. The author then discusses the existence of a new field of interdisciplinary social science research done around the theme of fishing communities that could be called the socio-anthropology of maritime fishing communities. Its aim is to study those social groups which live actually or symbolically from the sea and fishing.