The article analyzes the rite of passage upon crossing the Equator line and its transformations. In the 20th century the persistence of this ritual gave the impression that its form had always been the same. However, looking at the sources from the 16th century, we can understand its origin, dissemination, and transformation in maritime culture. Sailors and officers participated in the construction of ritual, full of significance for the professional life of men working at sea. The sources used here are basically travel narratives from the period in question.O artigo analisa o rito de passagem da travessia da linha do equador e suas transformações. No século XX, a persistência desse ritual deixa a impressão de que suas formas tenham sido se...
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The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime his...
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In this article, I propose the assumption that we are making a technological journey, analogous in m...
This research note explores the possibility of approaching navigational instruments not as evidence ...
The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime his...
The article addresses some aspects of sailors’ religious practices during their trips across the Atl...
During the Age of Sail, sailors often marked their experience by the crossing of the equator or anot...
For centuries, new sailors from European and North American countries have embraced often brutal haz...
The world of maritime work between the 16th and 19th centuries was marked by the spatial circulation...
In this essay I'll intend to analyse some aspects of the knowledge diffusion amid Portuguese and Eur...
With the crossing of the equator, sailors developed a rite of passage using objects and reactivating...
The identification of the Portuguese as intrepid sailors crossing oceans and bridging the world, as...
ABSTRACT This article aims to make a brief summary of the legal and regulatory developments in marit...
Historiography has paid insufficient attention to the influence of winds and currents. The rise of W...
This article involves the analysis of a case-study, so I have chosen Equador by the Portuguese autho...
In some respects, we know more about the anthropology of Amerindian groups in the early modern perio...
At the beginning of the Modern Age, in a long-term process were the past logics were ...
In this article, I propose the assumption that we are making a technological journey, analogous in m...
This research note explores the possibility of approaching navigational instruments not as evidence ...
The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime his...