Sri Lankan Fishermen: Rural Capitalism and Peasant Society

agriculture annual areas arrack average beachseine shares bible bicycle traders brothers capitalist cash catch cent Ceylon Chapter coconut codend coir Colombo considerable costs crew members cross-cousins David Mahattea deep-sea distribution dowry economic Ediriweera elite employment faction core faction leaders families fish traders Fisheries fishing gear fishing villages flush period Gahavalla beach Gahavalla fishermen Hambantota hauling houses important income increase inshore fishing investment Karava karayo kinship kinsmen Kottetawa Kudawellekele land less living loans marrakalai marriage married Matara mechanised boats mechanised craft middle peasants monopsony Moraketiara number of nets Obeyesekere operating organisation orua owner ownership parallel cousins peasant households pelapata political poor peasant population production profits purchased reason relations of production relationships relatives retail Rossiappu rural Salagama sell shareholders Sinhala Sinhalese Sinimodera social sold Sri Lanka Sunil Mudalali Tangalla Tissamaharama tree crops wage labour wattle and daub women