Frank Muttenzer is lecturer of social anthropology at the University of Lucerne.

Being Ethical among Vezo People is a thoughtful and original approach to one of the most pressing problems on the anthropological agenda, people’s relations to their environment and the threats it faces. It takes the anthropology of ethics into fascinating new terrain.

• IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: Ecological Psychology and the Anthropology of Well-BeingPart I – Fishing LivelihoodsChapter 1 – Luck with Marriage: Being Ethical among Ritually Constituted PersonsChapter 2 – The Group Ethos: Human Affordances of the Sea Cucumber FisheryChapter 3 – Knowing How to Fish: Scarcity, Markets and Wishful ThinkingChapter 4 – The Unenclosed Commons: What Goes Without Saying among Octopus GleanersPart II- Moral LuckChapter 5 – The Blue Growth Narrative: Assigning Blame for Resource DepletionChapter 6 – Geopolitics of the Marine Frontier: Taboo and Sacrifice in the Barren IslesChapter 7 – Fishing Magic and Shared Doubt: Seasonal Migrants’ Ritual CycleChapter 8 – The Reliability of Oracles: A Pledge to Confirm What the Spirits Say Conclusion: Well-Being, Ecology, and Moral DisagreementBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Frank Muttenzer is lecturer of social anthropology at the University of Lucerne.

Being Ethical among Vezo People is a thoughtful and original approach to one of the most pressing problems on the anthropological agenda, people’s relations to their environment and the threats it faces. It takes the anthropology of ethics into fascinating new terrain.

• IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: Ecological Psychology and the Anthropology of Well-BeingPart I – Fishing LivelihoodsChapter 1 – Luck with Marriage: Being Ethical among Ritually Constituted PersonsChapter 2 – The Group Ethos: Human Affordances of the Sea Cucumber FisheryChapter 3 – Knowing How to Fish: Scarcity, Markets and Wishful ThinkingChapter 4 – The Unenclosed Commons: What Goes Without Saying among Octopus GleanersPart II- Moral LuckChapter 5 – The Blue Growth Narrative: Assigning Blame for Resource DepletionChapter 6 – Geopolitics of the Marine Frontier: Taboo and Sacrifice in the Barren IslesChapter 7 – Fishing Magic and Shared Doubt: Seasonal Migrants’ Ritual CycleChapter 8 – The Reliability of Oracles: A Pledge to Confirm What the Spirits Say Conclusion: Well-Being, Ecology, and Moral DisagreementBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Frank Muttenzer is lecturer of social anthropology at the University of Lucerne.

Being Ethical among Vezo People is a thoughtful and original approach to one of the most pressing problems on the anthropological agenda, people’s relations to their environment and the threats it faces. It takes the anthropology of ethics into fascinating new terrain.

• IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: Ecological Psychology and the Anthropology of Well-BeingPart I – Fishing LivelihoodsChapter 1 – Luck with Marriage: Being Ethical among Ritually Constituted PersonsChapter 2 – The Group Ethos: Human Affordances of the Sea Cucumber FisheryChapter 3 – Knowing How to Fish: Scarcity, Markets and Wishful ThinkingChapter 4 – The Unenclosed Commons: What Goes Without Saying among Octopus GleanersPart II- Moral LuckChapter 5 – The Blue Growth Narrative: Assigning Blame for Resource DepletionChapter 6 – Geopolitics of the Marine Frontier: Taboo and Sacrifice in the Barren IslesChapter 7 – Fishing Magic and Shared Doubt: Seasonal Migrants’ Ritual CycleChapter 8 – The Reliability of Oracles: A Pledge to Confirm What the Spirits Say Conclusion: Well-Being, Ecology, and Moral DisagreementBibliographyIndexAbout the Author