Chiloé

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Chiloé Today and Over the Centuries

   • Anton Daughters

   Pages 1-20

3. Local Knowledge, Local Networks, and Successful Cooperative Mussel Aquaculture on Chiloé

   • Ana Pitchon

   Pages 21-37

4. Livelihood Diversification as a Form of Resilience? An Ethnographic Account of Artisanal Fishers in Chile’s Lakes Region

   • Sarah A. Ebel

   Pages 39-52

5. Food and Culture in Chiloé: Potatoes, Curanto, and Chicha

   • Anton Daughters

   Pages 53-65

6. Trueque Chilote: Traditional Barter Networks Connect Nature and Society in Northern Patagonia

   • Richard A. Vercoe

   Pages 67-89

7. Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Firewood Trade in Southern Chile

   • Eric H. Thomas

   Pages 91-105

8. How Households Are Made: Marriage, Independence, and Productivity on the Island of Apiao, Chiloé

   • Giovanna Bacchiddu

   Pages 107-124

9. Back Matter

   Pages 125-130

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This volume focuses on the ethnobiology of southern Chile’s Archipelago of Chiloé. Chiloé presents a unique perspective on the intersection of society and biology owing to its vast natural resources, historic culture of cooperation, geographic isolation, and external resource exploitation. Contributions to this volume cover knowledge bases in both marine and terrestrial systems, and how specific local knowledge types contributed to a variety of strategies, including subsistence, social-ecological resilience, resource conservation, cultural heritage preservation, economic systems, and mitigating uncertainty. This book addresses the specificities of human-environment interaction on a resource-rich island, and how historic knowledge and practices can help configure adaptation to a changing social-ecological landscape.

• Chiloe
• Adaptation
• Subsistence
• Conservation
• Ethnobiology
• Systematic Botany

• Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Justice Systems, Truman State University, Kirksville, USA

  Anton Daughters

• Department of Anthropology, California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, USA

  Ana Pitchon

Anton Daughters is an assistant professor of anthropology at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. His field research in Chiloé focuses on the cultural changes that have accompanied economic shifts in the region over the past forty years. He received a BA in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico, a PhD from the University of Arizona, and a two-year Mellon Fellowship at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. He has published in Anthropology Now, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Kiva, and Journal of the Southwest, and is a co-editor of Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, a two-volume documentary history of the Hopi published by University of Arizona Press.

Ana Pitchon is a researcher with the firm INSITUM Consulting. A former associate professor of anthropology at California State University Dominguez Hills and assistant professor at San Jose State University, she receiveda BA in Anthropology and Spanish from Colby College and a PhD in Ecological Anthropology from the University of Georgia. She has conducted research on fisheries and coastal communities in multiple countries, with a focus on social-ecological resilience. She has published in Human Organization, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Journal of Anthropological Research, CalCOFI Reports and Urban Coast.

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