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Héritage et transmission des savoirs dans une communauté de pêcheurs portugaise
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Escallier, Christine |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | Heritage and knowledge transmission in a Portuguese fishing community Fishing is a complex activity that makes appeal to the senses, perceptions and analysis, up to a knowing how-to-do as a set of controlled behaviours. This knowledge is not to be acquired just through transmission but rather through the experience only associated to the practice. So it is no possible to dissociate the didactic learning from the empirical acquisition for its analysis. The observation that commands the simplest gesture comes from a slow process of learning, of which goal, content and correspondent modalities aim at a final better result. The already dominated act, in confront with the real circomstances of the profession, recalls empirical knowledge because the knowing how-to-do of the fisherman depends on his knowledge and his ability of analysis. Since the fishermen are never confronted to general conditions, but on the contrary exactly to particular conditions, nothing is acquired forever as far as knowledge is concerned. This has to constantly adapt itself to the circomstances. The same way as writing expresses his author’s thought, the fisherman’s technical gesture is the “verb” that “tells”, that’s to say, “expresses” the community’s thought. This way, going beyond the simple technical description, we are trying to reveal men in their life route, from behind their work gestures. Making use of observation and study of a whole set of behaviours we go through the thought of the community, whose knowledge is its source of identity. Knowledge is a set of acquirements, experiences and techniques accumulated by a person or a social group. In a fishing community, knowledge develops with the techniques, adapting it to the new space changes and innovations. Being dynamic, it nourishes itsef from different sources. Knowledge is always in a constant evolution, because it is both empirical and didactic. If the knowledge of a young generation is not comparable to the one of old people, we are aware that the former is born from the latter in a process of acquisition and transmission, up to the crystallizing of a new knowledge. Thus, for two centuries generations of Nazaren fishermen have been transmitting a prt of their cognitive capital to their heirs, regrouping scattering elements in a coherent whole in such a way to constitute a set of |
| Starting Page | 33 |
| Ending Page | 47 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 3 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://repositorio.uma.pt/bitstream/10400.13/500/1/ArtigoChristineEscallier.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
