Zoeken
Zoeken kan via de modus 'eenvoudig zoeken' (één veld) of uitgebreid via 'geavanceerd zoeken' (meerdere velden). Zo kan je bv. zoeken op een combinatie van een auteursnaam (auteur), een jaartal (jaar) en een documenttype.
Boekenmand
Nuttige resultaten kan je aanvinken en toevoegen aan een mandje. De inhoud hiervan kan je exporteren of afdrukken (naar bv. PDF).
RSS
Op de hoogte blijven van nieuw toegevoegde publicaties binnen uw interessegebied? Dit kan door een RSS-feed (?) te maken van jouw zoekopdracht.
nieuwe zoekopdracht
A sea-change in the sea? Perceptions and practices towards sea turtles and manatees in Portugal’s Atlantic Ocean legacy
Brito, C.; Vieira, N. (2016). A sea-change in the sea? Perceptions and practices towards sea turtles and manatees in Portugal’s Atlantic Ocean legacy, in: Schwerdtner Máñez, K et al. Perspectives on oceans past: A handbook on marine environmental history. pp. 175-191. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7496-3_10
In: Schwerdtner Máñez, K; Poulsen, B. (Ed.) (2016). Perspectives on oceans past: A handbook on marine environmental history. Springer Science and Business Media: Dordrecht. ISBN 978-94-017-7495-6. xii, 211 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7496-3
|
| Author keywords |
South Atlantic; Sea turtles; Manatees; Exploration and exploitation; Historical changes; Local cultures |
| Abstract |
The perception of a natural environment, and human attitudes towards that environment and its elements, have always been shaped by a multitude of factors such as aesthetics, traditional, cultural and historical importance, usefulness and economic value. More recently the level of public knowledge, along with the perception of the cognitive and behavioral characteristics as well as loveable qualities of the animals, plays a major role in human-nature relations. In this chapter, large marine mega fauna – a group that brings together charismatic species with similar features that enhances care in the context of this topic – are analyzed as paradigmatic case-studies in maritime history and marine environmental history of the Portuguese Atlantic from the fifteenth century to the present. The exploitation and trade of marine resources has a documented history which changed dramatically with the European Overseas Expansion. The exploration of the Atlantic constituted a strong stimulus not only to perceive the world in a new geographical and cultural dimension, but also – in describing the novelty, exoticism, beauty and strangeness of nature – to value it as an economical source leading to the dwindling of entire populations. Here, the cases of sea turtles and manatees in the South Atlantic are explored. Early modern written sources, iconography and cartography, modern fishing and import/export statistics, journals and news, articles and naturalists’ records, and contemporary oral history and conservation concerns were gathered and analyzed to understand changing perceptions and attitudes over time. |
IMIS is ontwikkeld en wordt gehost door het VLIZ.
