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Social theory and human ecology - the speaker and the producer - the"household" and the individual, structure, agency, and history;anthropological discussions of fishing economies - hunters andgatherers of aquatic resources, the definition and the category offishing, restrictions of access to resources - closure and tenure;systems of production and social discourse - the relationship betweenrepresentations and reality, cultural constructs - on fish, production,and gender, concepts and social context - an hypothesis; thedomestication of nature - household production - the production systemof medieval Iceland, a "blind date" with the sea, myth and metaphor;from nature to society - the market economy - the social relations andtechniques of expansive fishing, hierarchical models of success,information, competition and social honour; the domination of nature -the modern state - consolidated capitalism; changing notices of fishing- the authenticity of the "skipper effect" - competing rationalities -science, equity and power; beyond the language of nature.