A Phoenician Way to be Roman

This paper offers a synthesis on my dissertation, titled The Phoenician communities of the Iberian Peninsula and their integration in the Roman world: an identity perspective. The period under discussion extends from the end of the Second Punic War in 206 BCE to the Flavian era in the last quarter of the century CE. About all, this work focuses on the cultural and ethnic dimensions of the process of integration.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Old and new coins in Southern Hispania in the sixth century A.D

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the behaviour of monetary circulation in Southern Hispania in the 6th century AD. During this time, there was a visible renewal of the monetary stock. This large quantitative increase contrasts with a shortage of information on coin circulation for the previous period, between the second quarter of the 5th century and the arrival of Byzantine authority in the Iberian Peninsula.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

The Legend You Thought You Knew: Text and Screen Representations of Puteri Gunung Ledang

This article traces the evolution of narratives about the supernatural woman said to live on Gunung Ledang, from oral folklore to sixteenth-century courtly texts to contemporary films. In all her instantiations, the figure of Puteri Gunung Ledang can be interpreted in relation to the legitimation of the state, with the folklore preserving her most archaic incarnation as a chthonic deity essential to the maintenance of the ruling dynasty. By the time of the Sejarah Melayu and Hikayat Hang Tuah, two of the most important classical texts of Malay literature, the myth of Puteri Gunung Ledang had been desacralized. Nevertheless, a vestigial sense of her importance to the sultanate of Melaka remains. The first Malaysian film that takes her as its subject, Puteri Gunung Ledang (S. Roomai Noor, 1961), is remarkably faithful to the style and substance of the traditional texts, even as it reworks the political message to suit its own time. The second film, Puteri Gunung Ledang (Saw Teong Hin, 2004), again exemplifies the ideology of its era, depoliticizing the source material even as it purveys Barisan Nasional ideology. Keywords: myth; invention of tradition; Malay literature; Malaysian cinem

OS PORTUGUESES E O COMÉRCIO DE ESCRAVOS NAS FILIPINAS (1580-1600)

Contrariamente a uma conceção “história oficial”, onde sobressai um Império organizado e controlado pelos agentes da coroa, o acesso a novos acervos documentais, nomeadamente asiáticos, contribuíram para o conhecimento de uma presença portuguesa, algo desarrumada e espontânea, onde os comerciantes privados assumem um papel preponderante na expansão e organização comercial de entrepostos como Malaca ou Macau. O presente artigo tem como principal objetivo estudar o tráfico escravo entre as praças portuguesas de Malaca e Macau, entre 1580 e 1600, época que corresponde, parcialmente, ao período da união ibérica

Aspectos sociales y económicos de Malaca romana

The first news that the literaries text adduce us about Malaca, there are referring to his inclusion in Semitic town's group of the coast, who, with, others of the Guadalquivir Valley (Canno, Bardo} revolt against the newly erected roman administration in Spain. This revolt, which was generated along the years 198-197 B. C. (Liv. XXXIII, 21, 7-9), included a settlements with different legal status, from what in the same way, there are several reasons to the same revolt. Malaca. as civitas foederata, like others towns of the coast, also with Semitic origin, in order to his foedus with Roma, hadn't to contribute with the regular tax, but indeed it had to pay one special contribution at troops to the legions, and we know that, during these years, there is a great provincialism in the roman army in Spain. Perhaps this dutie’s increase, roused to Malaca for the revolt, while that the revolt’s motive in the Guadalquivir Valley it would be the imposition of the regular stipendium, since that year, taxed tribute for his conditions like civitates stipendiariae (Liv. XXXIll, 27, 1; Liv. XXXIV, 10). The usual sources keep silent about almost kind following happenings to the 197 B. C., about the roman Malaca. The town must proceed with his Semitic tradition's industries, such as it were the bad luck fish's industry and the sauce's preparation, for which there are documents since preroman times. The libiophoenices. who the latines texts mentions, perhaps they should can make up the work's hand who, being carried during previously times towards the South-East region, support the peak of this industries, whose direction Semitic minority secure of the place the presence of the African peoples in the town, attested in the texts, it is not a surprise to one community, as Malaca, which always maintained contacts of all sort with the neighbouring coast. From the hostile contacts, because of true invasions of Moorish people, attested since the end of the roman Republic until Adrian and Marc Aurel emperors (CIL, VI, 31856), attracts possibly on account the wealth of the Malacitano market, until the contacts that the trade had promoted in the apparition of the Corpus negotiantium salsarum, of Syrian’s corporation {CIL, II, p. 254), public officials about the trade (CIL, II, 1970), people of African origin (CIL, II, 1976), etc., all these things ratify one important economic activity, possibly uninterrupted along of the history of the town, and one interest from Roma to defend such institutions for his self profit. Malaca, city alike in weight to Gades o Carthago Nova, with a privileged legal status, in flavian limes passed to be included in the municipal rule, like there is attested in the important discovery of his lex municipalis. Malaca passed to the full roman administration without evident problems and like answer of the centralist wish of the emperor, who were interested in to make firm the services of the one town, which directed toward his economic projection, and outside the political convulsions, there is warranting the continuity of the programs of the emperors. Perhaps the omission of news in the texts about Malaca, it is responding for this condition of pacific evolution, which the town would have, really very little attractive to the Latin writers, always with attention for the incidents with historical prominence

Sobre espaços, turistas e homelands imaginadas

Este texto explora relações entre espaços, identidades e processos turísticos. Baseado em trabalho de campo antropológico (realizado em Portugal, Malásia e Sin gapura), aborda-se o processo de construção social do espaço do bairro português de Malaca (1929-2009). Discute-se o processo de apropriação social do bairro por várias categorias de pessoas e argumenta-se que, desde a sua produção colonial à sua reapro priação contemporânea, coexiste uma retórica de nostalgia empacotada subjacente aos usos do espaço

Phoenician communities in the Roman world: the case of Hispania

This poster aims to report the conclusions of our PhD thesis, titled The Phoenician communities of the Iberian Peninsula and their integration in the Roman world: an identity perspective. The period under discussion extends from the end of the Second Punic War in 206 BCE to the Flavian era (mid-first century CE). Above all, our dissertation focuses on the cultural and ethnic dimensions of the process of integration of communities of Phoenician origin and tradition in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula into the structures of Roman Empire. The theoretical framework which we take as our starting point rests on two pillars: - Social Constructivism. - Postcolonial Theories.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Timor Lorosa'e, características das línguas crioulas e do português conservado na zona : contribuição para a língua oficial

Livro de homenagem à professora Maria Emília Ricardo Marque