Listening to Sea Lions: Currents of Change from Galapagos to Patagonia

Sarah Keene Meltzoff's book travels from the Galapagos down to the depths of Patagonia and north along the dry coast of Chile. Its subject is the ocean world of Latino coastal people and the constant change they live with.

Sea lions run through the book as fellow creatures who share those changes, and they are read as metaphoric selves. Meltzoff relies on storytelling rather than explicit theory to explain local struggles and survival strategies, which keeps the account close to the people it describes.

The book suits readers of ethnography, coastal communities and environmental change. It is published by Altamira Press, ISBN-13 9780759122352.