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Article: The Propensity of Things: The Portuguese Calcada and Its Historicity
Title | The Propensity of Things: The Portuguese Calcada and Its Historicity |
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Authors | |
Keywords | cultural heritage conservation urban identity Macau Calcada UNESCO |
Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/ |
Citation | Current Anthropology, 2018, v. 59 n. 4, p. 388-389 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Drawing on ethnographic research, this article examines the ways in which the calçada portuguesa (“Portuguese pavement”) that the late Portuguese administration developed in Macau (China) was converted into a “cultural item” of Macau’s visual and urban identity. It shows how a project loosely linked to the demise of the colonial, while reclaiming space through a contested operation of urban renewal, transformed the calçada into a seemingly desired spatial and historical narrative, tied to the production of heritage and the emergence of a stronger “theming” strategy of tourism promotion for Macau. Primarily an urban project employed in the revitalization of the cityscape, the incipient calçada encountered culturally inspired resistance and animosity from the Chinese population. At first embodying a contested image and legacy, the pavement has, nevertheless, undergone symbolic regeneration through discursive and material readjustment following its localization into the cultural history of place. Throughout this process, past and present were conflated in a fabrication that eventually undermined the reminiscent equivocal nature of interethnic relations that marked the transition from colonial to postcolonial Macau. |
Description | Comments of article 'The Portuguese Calçada in Macau: Paving Residual Colonialism with a New Cultural History of Place' by Sheyla S. Zandonai and Vanessa Amaro |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/244765 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.1 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.698 |
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dc.contributor.author | Chu, CL | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-18T01:58:40Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-18T01:58:40Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Current Anthropology, 2018, v. 59 n. 4, p. 388-389 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0011-3204 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/244765 | - |
dc.description | Comments of article 'The Portuguese Calçada in Macau: Paving Residual Colonialism with a New Cultural History of Place' by Sheyla S. Zandonai and Vanessa Amaro | - |
dc.description.abstract | Drawing on ethnographic research, this article examines the ways in which the calçada portuguesa (“Portuguese pavement”) that the late Portuguese administration developed in Macau (China) was converted into a “cultural item” of Macau’s visual and urban identity. It shows how a project loosely linked to the demise of the colonial, while reclaiming space through a contested operation of urban renewal, transformed the calçada into a seemingly desired spatial and historical narrative, tied to the production of heritage and the emergence of a stronger “theming” strategy of tourism promotion for Macau. Primarily an urban project employed in the revitalization of the cityscape, the incipient calçada encountered culturally inspired resistance and animosity from the Chinese population. At first embodying a contested image and legacy, the pavement has, nevertheless, undergone symbolic regeneration through discursive and material readjustment following its localization into the cultural history of place. Throughout this process, past and present were conflated in a fabrication that eventually undermined the reminiscent equivocal nature of interethnic relations that marked the transition from colonial to postcolonial Macau. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | University of Chicago Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Current Anthropology | - |
dc.rights | Current Anthropology. Copyright © University of Chicago Press. | - |
dc.subject | cultural heritage | - |
dc.subject | conservation | - |
dc.subject | urban identity | - |
dc.subject | Macau | - |
dc.subject | Calcada | - |
dc.subject | UNESCO | - |
dc.title | The Propensity of Things: The Portuguese Calcada and Its Historicity | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Chu, CL: clchu@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Chu, CL=rp01708 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1086/698957 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85051594613 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 277810 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 59 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 388 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 389 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000441266600003 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0011-3204 | - |