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Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2006
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- Time Signature in Namban Lacquerware: Tangible Forms of Storing Remembrance Leonor Leiria Historia This paper attempts to establish ground for an Anthropological understanding of forms of transmission of tangible valuables between generations according to universalism versus cultural relativism dichotomy. The subject is exemplified with a specific universe of objects Namban lacquerware, that are the outcome of an interculturalexchange between Europeans and Japanese during the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies.Drawing on fieldwork experience, the aim is to understand the modus operandi of conservation and transmission of Namban objects. For that purpose, the notion of irreversibility and reversibility of events and material forms in time is developed according to Sir Karl Poppers metaphor of the Arrow of Time. Furthermore, a case of transformation of human bodies into objects of catholic worship is given.Finally, the paper examine how Namban chests containing relics were in display in religious context and, how nowadays the same items are in display in secular settings, namely in museums. 2006 artículo científico 0874-8438 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36101203 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=361 Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies application/pdf Universidade Nova de Lisboa Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies (Portugal) Vol.12