Anthropologist Gísli Pálsson writes in 1989 about the art of fishing, focusing on the place of fishing societies in anthropological though, some early evolutionary schemes in which fishing occupies a significant position, and recent attempts to define the properties of fishing adaptations. He argues that many approaches to fishing emphasise material context and ecological relations and that such an approach suggests a ´natural´ model of production which depicts the individual as an autonomous isolate engaged in the technical act of fishing.

The Art of Fishing