Mouros Míticos em Trás-os-Montes: contributos para um estudo dos mouros no imaginário rural a partir de textos da literatura de tradição oral.
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2005
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O presente estudo debruça-se sobre um vasto conjunto de textos narrativos da tradição oral transmontana com vista a delimitar um quadro de matrizes paradigmáticas que permitam ajudar a interpretar o papel dos mouros no imaginário rural e os valores que as narrações suportam enquanto veículos de comunicação intergeracional.
Para tal apoia-se numa tradição que é bastante rica em registos preservados na oralidade sobre mouros ligados a monumentos, pontes, rios, montanhas, grutas, penedos e outros espaços naturais e culturais, muitos dos quais mantêm designações toponímicas que assumem modelos de representações simbólicas do imaginário rural. A diversidade de tais registos, seja nos mitos e lendas, seja nas alusões toponímicas, sugere uma definição do arquétipo do mouro mítico nem sempre coincidente com o modelo dos mouros históricos.
Para além da edição do corpus narrativo compilado, o estudo procura estabelecer a dualidade da figura dos mouros na história e na mitologia, com vista a uma definição do mouro mítico, e identificar e interpretar: 1 – a dimensão do antagonismo étnico-religioso entre mouros e cristãos e as estratégias teocêntricas que podem estar presentes na assimetria dessa dimensão; 2 – as actividades e qualidades dos mouros; 3 – a natureza e a simbologia dos tesouros e encantos; 4 – a toponímia e outras etiologias relacionadas com os mouros, tentando, por um lado, avaliar a dimensão e significado dos topónimos que a cultura popular associa a uma imensa variedade de espaços rurais, e, por outro, reflectir sobre a hermenêutica dos fenómenos naturais ou culturais da paisagem.
The present study focuses on a vast combination of narrative texts of the oral tradition of Trás-os-Montes with a view to delimitating a paradigmatical source which allows the help on interpreting the rural imaginary role of the Moors, and the values which are supported by the narrations as the intergenerational communication vehicle. For such, the tradition is favoured by sufficiently rich preserved oral registrations regarding Moors, which are binded to monuments, bridges, rivers, mountains, caves, stones and other natural and cultural spaces, many of which maintain toponymical designations that assume models of symbolic representations of the rural imaginary. A diversity of such registrations, being of myths and legends or being of toponymical allusions, suggests an archetype definition of the mythical Moor which does not always coincide with the historic model of the Moors. As well as the narrative compilation corpus edition, the study seeks to establish a duality of the Moors’ figure in history and in mythology, with a view to defining the mythical Moor to identify and interpret; 1- the dimension of the ethnicreligious antagonism between Moors and Christians and the theocentric strategies which may be present in the asymmetry of that dimension; 2- the activities and qualities of the Moors; 3- the nature and symbology of the treasures and enchantments; 4- the toponymy and of other etiologies related to the Moors, on one and by trying to evaluate the dimension and meaning of the toponyms in which popular culture associates to an immense variety of rural areas, on the other hand to reflect on the hermeneutics of the landscape's natural or cultural phenomena.
The present study focuses on a vast combination of narrative texts of the oral tradition of Trás-os-Montes with a view to delimitating a paradigmatical source which allows the help on interpreting the rural imaginary role of the Moors, and the values which are supported by the narrations as the intergenerational communication vehicle. For such, the tradition is favoured by sufficiently rich preserved oral registrations regarding Moors, which are binded to monuments, bridges, rivers, mountains, caves, stones and other natural and cultural spaces, many of which maintain toponymical designations that assume models of symbolic representations of the rural imaginary. A diversity of such registrations, being of myths and legends or being of toponymical allusions, suggests an archetype definition of the mythical Moor which does not always coincide with the historic model of the Moors. As well as the narrative compilation corpus edition, the study seeks to establish a duality of the Moors’ figure in history and in mythology, with a view to defining the mythical Moor to identify and interpret; 1- the dimension of the ethnicreligious antagonism between Moors and Christians and the theocentric strategies which may be present in the asymmetry of that dimension; 2- the activities and qualities of the Moors; 3- the nature and symbology of the treasures and enchantments; 4- the toponymy and of other etiologies related to the Moors, on one and by trying to evaluate the dimension and meaning of the toponyms in which popular culture associates to an immense variety of rural areas, on the other hand to reflect on the hermeneutics of the landscape's natural or cultural phenomena.
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Tese de Doutoramento em Cultura Portuguesa
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Literatura popular , Lendas , Mitos , Mouros , Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Portugal) , Mitologia , Património cultural , Sobrenatural