Ecology of the Nasake Fishermen (Progress Report)

The Temporal and Spatial Structure of their Activity System as Revealed by an Individual-Tracing Method

Abstract

It is hoped that human life or activity will be studied from an ecological point of view. This paper is based on the data obtained in ecological field surveys in a fishing village of the Nasake Island, the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. The Nasake fishermen work every day on the sea near their settlements, specializing in the hand-line fishing (ippontsuri).
Main concerns of paper are descriptions and discussions about the people's system of activity (especially subsistence activities) in terms of its temporal structure, spatial structure, their correlations, the relationships between men's activities and women's activities, and so on. From our methodological point of view, the temporal and spatial structure is regarded as a primary expression of human activity system.