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- Convenor:
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Christian Supiot
(Ohio State University)
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- Location:
- Bloco 1, Sala 1.12
- Start time:
- 12 July, 2017 at
Time zone: Europe/Lisbon
- Session slots:
- 1
Short Abstract:
In this panel we hope to further explore the role of historical and ethno-historical data in MCL frameworks, looking particularly at the way historical accounts of foreign travellers in the Asia-Pacific world can be used to develop new ways of thinking about the maritime cultures of the region.
Long Abstract:
Since the publication of Westerdahl´s seminal paper on the Maritime Cultural Landscape, maritime archaeologists have been incorporating a wide variety of datasets to understand past maritime communities. According to this theoretical framework, in order to fully understand maritime cultures it is important to explore all kinds of human relationships to the sea or any large bodies of water. Remains such as coastal dwellings, ancient ports, anchorages, boat houses, roads, forts, place names, stories, songs, terminology, and social practice are inextricable parts of the complex network that made up past maritime landscapes. The nature of the data (i.e. environmental, archaeological, historical, iconographic, ethnographic, and linguistic) naturally results in the need to use interdisciplinary or crossdisciplinary approaches that are entrenched in a broad and geographically oriented landscape perspective. The MCL offers a versatile way of understanding past human activities that may be difficult to grasp with material remains alone.
In this panel we hope to further explore the role of historical and ethno-historical data in MCL frameworks, looking particularly at the way historical accounts of foreign travellers in the Asia-Pacific world can be used to develop new ways of thinking about the maritime cultures of the region (i.e., nautical technology, navigation, and social practice).
Accepted papers:
Session 1Ana Ruiz Gutiérrez (Granada University) Aurelia Martín Casares (University of Granada)
Paper short abstract:
In this paper we hope to perceive the details of the navigation of the Galleon of Manila, we will be guided mainly by magnificent chronicles of the seventeenth century, described the vicissitudes of this itinerary, to create the cultural landscape of the “Nao de China”.
Paper long abstract:
The incipient transpacific route between the Philippines and New Spain began on January 1, 1565, when Andrés de Urdaneta as senior pilot and the grandson of Legazpi, Felipe de Salcedo, as commander of the ship, sailed from Manila on the galleon San Pedro in search of the route of return more suitable for the navigation to the port of Acapulco. They filled the interior waters of the archipelago, completing the equipment of the ship there, heading for the Strait of San Bernardino for the Pacific, and taking advantage of the current of Kuro Shivo to turn east, until the sailors saw the "signs", aquatic plants, with which they showed the proximity of the Californian coast that bordered, before arriving at the port of Acapulco, 8 of October of 1565.
With this voyage a permanent transpacific route was established for two hundred and fifty years, from 1565 to 1815, which assumed the hegemony of the Pacific Ocean as a commercial space, turning the ports of Cavite and Acapulco into preferential enclaves of the oriental goods of Southeast Asia.
We will analyze this transpacific route through seventeenth century chronicles of religious, merchants and adventurers, focusing on daily aspects that allow us to figure a visual imaginary of the Manila Galleon, its route, goods and ports.
Christian Supiot (Ohio State University)
Paper short abstract:
This paper analyzes the representation of asia-pacific ships and sailors in the 1614 Peregrinação, by Fernão Mendes Pinto. This analysis aims to shed light over the ways Pinto portrays the non European ships in order to convey or not an image of European superiority.
Paper long abstract:
This paper analyzes the representation of asia-pacific ships and sailors in the 1614 Peregrinação, by Fernão Mendes Pinto. This analysis aims to shed light over the ways Pinto portrays the non European ships in order to convey an image of European superiority or to communicate a more contradictory representation of equal capacities.