![]() ![]() The community preferred to use local law enforcement and social customs to deal with problems. Swift in particular noted the way in which the community on Tangier handles malfeasances within the community. ![]() Similarly, both communities distrust outside law enforcement, particularly state and federal enforcement. Neither group sees the necessity for relying on scientific knowledge in their day-to-day lives. Similarly, one of the Tangier watermen can spot an oyster bed or a good area for crabbing simply through their experiential and cultural knowledge of the area. A farmer in Wisconsin can, with an inspection, generally tell good farming land from bad farming land. Both speakers saw a heavy reliance on anecdotal and experiential knowledge in the communities they studied and, as a result, more skepticism of government regulation. But, nonetheless, the similarities were there. Swift’s watermen were admittedly more insular, relatively cut off from the rest of the country by the Chesapeake Bay when compared to their midwestern counterparts. The pair’s experiences, although undeniably different, yielded no shortage of cultural similarities between the populations. ![]() Professor Prifogle’s research places her in the rural Midwest, whereas Swift has spent fourteen months living with the watermen of Tangier Island on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The trio began by talking about the guest speakers’ backgrounds. ![]()
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