What is the “moral economy” of contemporary and historical pirate societies? How does contemporary ethnography present a more complete picture of the lives of “pirates”? Compare and contrast recent forms of piracy in the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, the Nigeria delta, and Southeast Asia. What social, economic, ecological, geographical, and political realities unite them? How are they similar and/or different from pirate societies of the past? Can “piracy” in the Bronze Age be viewed as “asymmetric” or “guerrilla” warfare? Can the “Golden Age of Piracy” be defined as an “inchoate” form of class struggle and rebellion? Were the Uksoks “criminals”, “pirates”, “mercenaries”, or “guerillas”? Defend your position. Then extend this analysis in understanding contemporary pirates. Who are they? Why do they do what they do? How does history help us understand the present, and how does ethnography help us understand the past? And to reiterate, what might be the “moral economy”, or “moral economies”, of piracy? How is violence deemed justified or not based on local cultural ethe and worldviews? Extrapolating what does this say about violence, war, and the state? (Note: adopt the Culturally Relative perspective of the Anthropologist. Nothing here is good, or bad, or just, or evil. Explain piracy to me. How and why does it happen).
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