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Fig. 5.3 Tonnarotti prepare innards which they will later preserve.

In this chapter I focus on diverse knowledge practices that emerge from local contexts

in order to think through the usefulness and limitations of the terms traditional knowledge

and local knowledge for the tonnara. I argue that the terms local and traditional and their

associated binaries global and modern are not useful for a fishery such as the tonnara that

continues to defy the very basis of these binaries. I expand the discussion of chapter two

where I argued that the concept of cultural diversity, which proceeded from the four-pillar

sustainability discourse, created temporal and scalar binaries (tradition/modern, local/global),

and romanticised tradition and indigenous practices and cosmologies. The concept also

created blindness towards cultural dimensions of commercial, large-scale or hybrid practices.

Through the case study of the Sardinian tonnare and its everyday knowledge practices I

continue a critique of culture as the fourth-pillar of sustainability and of cultural aspects of

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