Pescadoras e pescadores artesanais do Ceará: modo de vida, confrontos e horizontes

Abstract

The understanding of the history lived for the maritime fishing communities of people from Ceará marked the research that bases the elaboration of this article. Beyond dimensioning the dynamics of the productive activities, it is tried to evidence and to argue the meaning of the strategies and joints, constructed in different scales, in the history of the fights undertaken for the artisan fishing people for: a) the better conditions of life; b) permanence of artisan fishes; c) the right to the land and the territory; and, d) the construction of social project that values the social and cultural diversity of people who work in the sea