Academic Scientific JournalsOld Town and the Sea. A Contribution to Scientific Exploration
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26881/kg.2023.2.05Keywords:
Ocean, Urban anthropology, Sea and the City, Martime Culture, NarrationAbstract
In the presented text I attempt to recognize and describe the relationship between the city and the sea in the history of civilization and culture, juxtaposing these entities in a metaphorical order, looking at the city in a metaphorical comparative approach, at the same time going beyond categorical assignments and classification distinctions. In this combination, I am looking for a reflective space in which the vision of the city (in the adopted perspective) crystallizes as a place for people, a place whose conditions are determined by the proximity of nature and the sea. A natural curiosity. A reservoir of food and abstraction. Because the sea/ ocean connects and transforms nature, geography and experience. It both unites and divides people. It generates cultural patterns. Ocean, sea – as a construct. A cultural scenario embedded in customs, literature, painting, tourism, work, iconosphere. A sea of stories. The grand narrative on which ships, individuals and communities sail and drift; caravels and tankers, lifeboats, pirates, refugees, pearl divers, legions of researchers and swaths of civilizational garbage. On the way to the port. From port to port. Eternal sine-cosine.
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