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AuthorThis book is an anthropological inquiry into the oral history of Northern Ethiopia, complemented by a travelogue and illustrated with sketches made during the author's fieldwork in that region. This is the English version, updated and revised, of a book previously published in Portuguese.
(Revised and rewritten version) The book is a first-hand account of fieldwork in Northern Ethiopia. It matches a traveling account with drawings picked from his sketchbooks and with an intertextual analysis of a Amhara historical legends.
(English version) This book deals with Christian literature interpreted as myth. The work offers detailed analysis and anthropological interpretation of a body of Christian medieval texts, which confirm the existence of a mythological discourse based on the biblical narratives.
Verbal and pictorial images from Spain, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom, Ethiopia, Portugal and Morocco.
An account of the fishing activities and the social setting of a coastal village in Southern Portugal, which was once one of the country's largest fishing communities. The work is based on a year of research in land and on the sea.
This is not a manual to pass the driving test, but a warning against the criminal war that bleeds Portugal's roads and streets - a 'civil war' that signals the country's despairing ethical and cultural misery.
(First edition) The book is a first-hand account of fieldwork in Northern Ethiopia. It matches a traveling account with drawings picked from his sketchbooks and with an intertextual analysis of a Amhara historical legends.
(Portuguese version) This book deals with Christian literature interpreted as myth. The work offers detailed analysis and anthropological interpretation of a body of Christian medieval texts, which confirm the existence of a mythological discourse based on the biblical narratives.
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(Co)EditorThis volume sets forth to analyse illustrative aspects of the deep-rooted immersion of the populations of the eastern coasts of Africa in the vast network of commercial, cultural and religious interactions that extend to the Middle-East and the Indian subcontinent, as well as the long-time involvement of various exogenous military, administrative and economic powers.
What is the impact of the current processes of globalization for African countries and African citizens? How should African Studies be engaged to gauge African dynamics, both at a local and global level? What interdisciplinary means and tools should be brought in to produce an epistemologically relevant view (or narrative) of the issues under analysis?
This book contains an annotated English translation of the História da Etiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez, 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John.
Portuguese version of the annotated edition of the História da Etiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez, 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John.
The companion to an exhibition commemorating King Haile Selassie's visit to Portugal in 1959, a key period for the understanding of some of the events that led to the independence of many African countries.
Ethiopian narrative paintings are popular productions, generally of religious and historical-legendary content that do not receive in the conscience of the spectators the status of works of art.
This is the second volume of a series devoted to the interdisciplinary analysis of the concept of 'intangible heritage' and the problematic of heritage in general.
A collective reflection on the growing importance of pedestrian rights and the need to meet their qualitative needs within European urban systems.
The book explores the artistic, religious and political enduring impact of a fascinating if equivocal cultural encounter that took place in the 16th-17th centuries between Catholic Europeans and Orthodox Ethiopians.
This book points to the need of establishing that 'intangible heritage' can be a matter of reflection before making the strategic decision to discuss it or to seek to safeguard it.
Within a few years, the automobile became ubiquitous in Portugal - physically and mentally.
The generalization of its use - and its abuse - resulted in profound changes in the forms of social relationships in the country. Catalogue of the exhibition "Living in the Countryside, Loving the City", with photographs by Marie Chordi and Catherine Henriette (Belém Cultural Center, Lisbon, 2003)
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CoauthorLa cucaña destripada – fiesta y turistificación urbana (el ejemplo de Lisboa)
Taking as an example the very recent process of touristification of the city of Lisbon, this essay seeks to understand how the instrumentalisation of urban patrimonialised spaces, and their convergent gentrification, open the way to the new ritual practices of the so-called cultural tourism. Through the neoliberal turn of the globalization period that promotes the generalized commodification of leisure, we are all potential citizens of Cockaygne – understood here as the epitome of the popular imaginary of leisure. On Graphic Intent: a perambulation
This text deals with intentionality in in situ drawing, on two dimensions: that of its actual practice and that of its public sharing. It discusses the means through which these dimensions become intertwined, and reflects on the limited worth of ideologically-framed categorisations, such as the divide between tangibility and intangibility of cultural values to elucidate how drawing is a knowledge-driven endeavour. The Lisbon of the Future
The hydrocarbons that have so strongly conditioned life in the last century have allowed a growing percentage of humankind to make disruptive dreams of dizzying speeds, and have led "modern" urbanised societies to a quasi-comatose state of drunkenness from consuming cheap energy. This text argues for the need to elect the notion of "energy crisis" as a central pillar of analysis of future mobility systems. O Olho Cronográfico
What does it mean to draw in the digital age? In the "analogue age", the socialised selection of memories and knowledge derived from the limits of the internal and external mental tools to preserve data; the new "digital age", in turn, is marked by information over-abundance, the impossibility of "forgetting", and the loss of collective control over the means of selection and memory management. As Imagens e os Cadernos
Drawing, as a graphic technique - and as a form of graphic thought - is much closer to writing than to techniques of visual capture and representation. To a large extent, to draw is to write, as to draw is to draw. In both cases, we are faced with embodied cognition: a thought that is composed through articulation between visual perception, brain imagery, and manual graphic inscription on a flat surface. 'Sponsorhipped': Reflections on female temporary migration from the Horn of Africa to the Gulf and Lebanon
Female migratory flows from the Horn of Africa are mainly directed to Arab countries and tend to take the form of temporary legal migration. Like their Asian counterparts, these girls and women are subject to varying degrees of traficking and even enslavement, working mainly as in-house maids in afluent Arab households, where they tend to be denied free and fair labour rights, under a harsh interpretation of the kafala, or "sponsorship" system, prevalent in Arabic countries. This chapter reflects on the ways this situation is understood and managed in the hosting countries. From beleaguered fortresses to belligerent cities
As politically relevant as the Christian / Muslim cleavages may be in Ethiopia, the tendency of analysts and external decision-makers to overvalue them, disregarding the pragmatism shown by the millennial coexistence between these groups and the evidence of major reconfigurations presently taking place in urban Ethiopia, runs the risk of hindering a comprehensive reading of the complexity of the dynamics of domestic and foreign Ethiopian policy in the Horn of Africa. Breve nota crítica sobre a introdução da expressão “património intangível” em
Portugal The UNESCO has formalized, in 1972, a too restrictive view of the concept of “cultural heritage”. This has led to the questionable development of the “immaterial cultural heritage” as an independent tool in international classification processes. Drawing the lines: The limitations of cultural Ekphrasis
By writing, anthropologists recreate transmitted social memories for the benefit of their readers and, in doing so, the literary nature of their endeavour becomes manifest. Much like a novelist, when the social scientist produces and publishes a written text, he/she offers the public a fictional reality shared between the transmitter of a memory and the reader’s intellectual reception and aesthetic response. This shared reality is, in the proper sense, an imaginary universe that is summoned by the author . New Graphics for old Stories (With Ana Isabel Afonso) It could be argued that as regards the use of drawings in anthropology, unless one has that special skill, it is easier to find a good camera (or indeed, a good cameraman) than a good illustrator. But it would be regrettable if this difficulty led us to ignore the potential offered by the plasticity of drawing, when new technologies open up so many interesting opportunities for convergence between words and images to construct and represent anthropological knowledge. Impressions of a journey to Akxum, Adwa, Yeha, Debra Damo (Tigray, Nothern Ethiopia), March to May 2002.
Guerra nas Estradas: na berma da antropologia
A partially self-critical reflexion on the roots of the rhetoric of road violence and of the idea of "warfare on the roads" in Portugal. Nem mais nem menos. Literalidade e problematização em antropologia "do simbólico"
An anthropological reading about the illusions of literality in the processes of signification and representation. Managing local resources in Eastern Algarve, Portugal. An assessment of the policy uses of local knowledge(s)
(With A. Medeiros, G. Praça and P. Sena) In the Ria Formosa, the concept of "local knowledge relates to a form of cultural imagination that is common to other processes of creation and management of protected "natural" areas. Machiaveliian empowerment and disempowerment. The violent political changes in early 17th century Ethiopia
The story of the confrontation between two Christian models of political and religious sovereignity was filled with misunderstandings and tragedy. O destino etíope do Preste João - A Etiopia nas representações cosmográficas europeias
For centuries, the legendary figure of Prester João and his distant kingdom retained a summoning power in European cosmographic imagination. Ethiopia in the Geographical Representations of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
In the history of contacts and relations between Ethiopia and Western Europe, an ambiguous perception of the Europeans by Ethiopians had its counterpart in a peculiar perception of that particular region by the West. The representation of Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, was visibly distinct from the African context, as it had been endowed with an "oriental" image since ancient times. Carta do Preste João das Índias
(With Leonor Buescu) The enigmatic figure of the Indian sovereign Presbiter Johannes presents in this pseudo-autograph letter all the splendor of his marvelous and inaccessible empire, whose eastern regions border the earthly Paradise itself. Prester John is a timeless sovereign and priest, Lord of lords, who governs a Christian society, where marvels of all kinds flourish between the miraculous and the monstrous, the divine and the diabolical. |