The Fishermen from Šolta. Ethnological View on Fishing from the First Half of the Twentieth Century Cover Image

Šoltanski ribari. Etnološki pogled na ribarstvo prve polovice 20. Stoljeća
The Fishermen from Šolta. Ethnological View on Fishing from the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Author(s): Goran Pavel Šantek
Subject(s): Economy, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Hrvatsko etnološko društvo
Keywords: economic anthropology; fishing; Šolta;

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the historical and ethnographic materials on the fishing on the island of Šolta during the first half of the twentieth century and discovers its undoubtable belonging to the market economy. The fishermen from Šolta are a heterogeneous social group in which, apparently due to the small number of them and with the help of the generalizing reciprocity, some traces of homogeneosity have been found as well. The fishing is shown to be a dynamic economic activity, and the fishermen, for their material means of production, members of a non-conservative social group.

  • Issue Year: 31/2001
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 47-62
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Croatian