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- The importance of Lama on presentation scenesPublication . Gonçalves, Vera; Rosa, Maria de Fátima; Gomes de Almeida, Isabel; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades; Departamento de História (DH)For the past years we have been focusing our attention on the agency of Mesopotamian divine figures, considering their multiple roles, features, and importance as displayed in several material, iconographic and textual data. By intertwining the methodological and theoretical apparatus of Archaeology and History with the ones of Religious Studies, one of our goals is to contribute to the reconstruction of the Mesopotamian religious system, by examining the conceptualization of deities within the institutional and the personal/familiar spheres. With this paper we aim to present some of our preliminary results within this scope, namely concerning the divine figure of Lama. With that in mind, we will revisit her importance on two small, but rather thematically cohesive samples of cylinder seals unearthed in Tell Asmar and Tell Ishchali during the 1930’s archaeological campaigns led by the at the time designated Oriental Institute of Chicago, presently Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago.
- The Metamorphoses of a Myth and its Pragmatic Effects in Uma Abelha na Chuva, by Carlos de OliveiraPublication . Loureiro, La Salette; CHAM - Centro de HumanidadesCreation, transformation, and metamorphosis are processes that affect the entire Universe, as Lavoisier's Law highlights. These three processes and concepts happen in various areas, and they have particular relevance in the field of Arts and Literature. Their importance, perception and evaluation varied over time, cultures, and geographies, usually in line with some artistic periods. The work of writers and artists is always a process of transformation and metamorphosis of materials, codes, themes, and so on, but it also operates the transformation of the creators and recipients. Moreover, in these fields, transformation, and metamorphosis are also work’s themes. In this chapter, we intend to analyze the presence of these three concepts and processes in the novel Uma Abelha na Chuva, by Carlos de Oliveira. Firstly, we will analyze the role of transformation in the author’s creative literary process and how it fits into the Neo-Realism movement. Secondly, we will see the presence of the theme of transformation in the novel. Finally, we will analyze the presence of the Hyacinthus Greek myth, the meanings, and the pragmatic effects it produces, in line with the fulfillment of the Marxist desideratum of transforming the world.
- Leer a Cervantes en tierra de CamõesPublication . de Abreu, Maria Fernanda; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
- El Quijote de T. GilliamPublication . de Abreu, Maria Fernanda; CHAM - Centro de HumanidadesIn this essay, I analyse some aspects of the transmediality operated by the British director T. Gilliam between Cervante’s Don Quichotte and his film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), with emphasis on the use of the Portuguese convent of Tomar. The complex and multifaceted architecture of this magnificent monumento, nowadays a UNESCO World Heritage Site, developed over several centuries, whose construction began in the 12th century and was successively extended until the 16th century, where T. Gilliam shoots an important part of the film (which largely corresponds to the stay of the Cervantes Quichotte and Sancho in the House of the Dukes), provides the ideal space for this director’s aesthetic and visual imagination. Which, by the way, does not fail to evoke what O. Welles had already done, namely in his use of Goya’s imagery. I conclude with what I consider to be a masterly use of the multi-purpose Tomar Convent in the construction of theatrical and carnivalised (Bakhtine concept) situations, extremes and distopics, of a Cervantine nature.
- Resistance in the Early Modern Iberian EmpiresPublication . Léon, Pablo Sánchez; Herreros, Benita; CHAM - Centro de HumanidadesOn the basis that resistance has come to be included among the forms of political action of social movements, this introduction offers an overview of its relevance for the study of the history of social conflicts and a historicization for its application to studies of the Portuguese and Hispanic empires in the Early Modern period. The text updates the debates on the category since the work of George C. Scott and Michel de Certeau and adds the contributions of other perspectives in their wake, offering a redefinition of resistance as a form of “contained contention” whose physiognomy is more entangled than opposed. The text then underlines the generalisation of practices of resistance in monarchies in the pre-modern world to focus on pluralism as an inherent feature of the normative frameworks of the pluricentric Iberian monarchies, whose overlapping and competing spheres of jurisdiction distinguished them from the monopolistic and centralized institutions as found in modern nation states. Drawing from political anthropology and legal studies, the proposal also goes beyond instrumental rationality approaches, arguing that resistances can be seen as “secondary adjustments” expressing the values of the individuals that undertake them and of their groups of reference. Finally, the text summarizes the content of the seventeen studies gathered in the volume.
- PrefácioPublication . da Luz, Hilarino; Mapera , Martins JC-; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
- PósfácioPublication . da Luz, Hilarino; Díaz, Eliana; Caballero, Amilkar; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
- Reception of AntiquityPublication . Lopes, Maria Helena Trindade; Gomes de Almeida, Isabel; Rosa, Maria Fátima; Departamento de História (DH); CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
- The Mesopotamian primordial ocean(s)Publication . Gomes de Almeida, Isabel; Departamento de História (DH); CHAM - Centro de HumanidadesThe Mesopotamian literary traditions dated to the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC depict a conception regarding the primeval substance, from which all deities and aspects of nature came to exist, as divine ocean(s). The simultaneous cosmogonic and theogonic processes were thus attributed to the agency of the primeval aquatic deities, who alone, in the case of the Sumerian goddess Namma, or in pair, in the case of the Akkadian divine couple Tiāmat and Apsû, set time and cosmic life in motion. Having in mind the cumulative nature of the Mesopotamian religious system, where tradition and innovation were encompassed to accommodate mythical (re)elaborations, this paper will address the differences and continuities that one can identify in the agency of these divine figures.
- Maria Leonor de BritoPublication . Melo, Daniel; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades