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Ownership of sea shrimp production and perceptions of economic opportunity in a Nicaraguan Miskitu village

Jamieson, Mark

Authors

Mark Jamieson



Abstract

This article on the catching and processing of sea shrimp investigates the relationship between differing degrees of access to the means of production and the generation of economic inequalities among the Miskitu people of Kakabila in Nicaragua's Pearl Lagoon. The widely held Kakabila notion that the production of wealth among some entails a concomitant impoverishment of others(Foster's “image of the limited good”) is shown, in the context of the local sea-shrimp economy, to have a verifiable basis in truth.

Citation

Jamieson, M. (2002). Ownership of sea shrimp production and perceptions of economic opportunity in a Nicaraguan Miskitu village. Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology, 41(3), 281-298

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2002
Deposit Date Jul 23, 2010
Journal Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology
Print ISSN 0014-1828
Publisher Department of Anthropology
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 41
Issue 3
Pages 281-298
Keywords Miskitu, Economic anthropology, Fishing, Shrimp, Nicaragua.
Publisher URL http://www.pitt.edu/~ethnolog/backissues.htm