This article gives a brief review of social science studies and particularly anthropology on artisan fishing in the coastal-marine area of Chile. For this purpose, a series of authors related to this area of study have been consulted in the last time. Chile is a country and a territory of maritime tradition. Beyond its geographical nature, this factor becomes increasingly relevant when we deal with their archaeology, history, and current culture. To understand all the above, the social sciences, and anthropology, are gradually advancing to crystallize their efforts in an area of study consolidated. In a context where globalization increasingly threatens the future of the marine biodiversity, where coastal communities are constantly impacted by the extractivism (extraction), it becomes necessary to understand how social sciences and particularly anthropology has taken on the problem. This article proposes to approach a state of the art of the socio-coastal marine area, giving a brief panorama of some of its key elements and thus to be able to build up a background for the anthropology of fishing in Chile.
Keywords:
anthropology, ethnography, globalization, artisan fisheries, coastal zone
