Subcultural Masculine Moral Identity Work among Rural Missouri Noodlers: "A Special Breed of Men"
Keywords:
gender, identity, masculinity, fishing, poaching, sub-culturesAbstract
This paper analyzes how male Missouri "noodlers"
(hand fishers) account for the persistence of illegal catfish catch-
ing across generations. Noodling is central to the way men con-
struct a subculturally worthy identity based on trust, respect,
sharing, reciprocity and recognition of interdependence with
members of their group, community and the local natural envi-
ronment. The noodling subculture rejects the definition of
noodling as poaching and constructs a group definition of
noodling as a worthy masculine community-building tradition.
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