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Two Sides of One River
Galicia, the region in the northwest corner of Spain contiguous with Portugal, is officially known as the Autonomous Community of Galicia. It is recognized as one of the historical nationalities making up the Spanish state, as legitimized by the Spanish Constitution of 1978. Although Galicia and Portugal belong to different states, there are frequent allusions to their similarities. This study compares topographic and ethnographic descriptions of Galicia and Portugal from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand how the integration into different states and the existence of nationalist discourses resulted in marked differences in the historical representations of these two bordering regions of the Iberian Peninsula. The author explores the role of the imagination in creating a sense, over the last century and a half, of the national being and becoming of these two related peoples.
Lendas galegas de tradición oral
Estas historias son tomadas do pobo, referidas a mouros, encantamentos, tesouros e cidades asolagadas. A súa riqueza é ben representativa do mundo rural tradicional. Estas lendas non piden do lector un enfoque meramente literario, senón que deben ser apreciadas como a expresión simbólica dunha cosmovisión fraguada ó longo dos séculos. Xosé Manuel González Reboredo (Lugo, 1946) desenvolve a súa actividade investigadora nos eidos da etnografía e a antropoloxía cultural. Discípulo de Fermín Bouza Brey, está vencellado ao Museo do Pobo Galego e á sección de Antropoloxía Cultural do Consello da Cultura Galega. Foi o coordenador da obra Galicia Antropoloxía (1997) e autor da Guía de festas populares de Galicia e da biografía Vida e obra de Xaquín Lorenzo (2004).
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Vida e obra de Xaquín Lorenzo
Neste libro, González Reboredo traza un completo retrato da personalidade de Xaquín Lorenzo, etnógrafo ourensán homenaxeado en 2004 co Día das Letras Galegas. Analiza a súa obra dun xeito rigoroso, facéndoa comprensible para o profano, cun especial coidado en salientar o seu significado esencial para o desenvolvemento dos estudios etnográficos galegos e para a divulgación da nosa cultura popular.
Witchcraft continued
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The study of witchcraft accusations in Europe during the period after the end of the witch trials is still in its infancy. Witches were scratched in England, swum in Germany, beaten in the Netherlands and shot in France. The continued widespread belief in witchcraft and magic in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France has received considerable academic attention. The book discusses the extent and nature of witchcraft accusations in the period and provides a general survey of the published work on the subject for an English audience. It explores the presence of magical elements in everyda...
European Border Regions in Comparison
Borders exist in almost every sphere of life. Initially, borders were established in connection with kingdoms, regions, towns, villages and cities. With nation-building, they became important as a line separating two national states with different “national characteristics,” narratives and myths. The term “border” has a negative connotation for being a separating line, a warning signal not to cross a line between the allowed and the forbidden. The awareness of both mental and factual borders in manifold spheres of our life has made them a topic of consideration in almost all scholarly disciplines – history, geography, political science and many others. This book primarily incorporates an interdisciplinary and comparative approach. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists and political science scholars from a diverse range of European universities analyze historical as well as contemporary perceptions and perspectives concerning border regions – inside the EU, between EU and non-EU European countries, and between European and non-European countries.
