PEGA AZUL : UMA AVE A ORIENTE E A OCIDENTE藍喜鵲：從東方飛到西方的鳥
The article "Pega Azul: A Bird in the East and West" by Rui Rocha examines the blue magpie as a symbolic figure capable of crossing cultural, religious, and aesthetic boundaries between the East and the West. Based on the assumption that birds have historically functioned as mediators between earth...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2017
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40055/2294 |
| Summary: | The article "Pega Azul: A Bird in the East and West" by Rui Rocha examines the blue magpie as a symbolic figure capable of crossing cultural, religious, and aesthetic boundaries between the East and the West. Based on the assumption that birds have historically functioned as mediators between earth and sky, divine messengers, and models for interpreting the world, the text proposes to trace the meanings attributed to this bird in different traditions and to weave them into an intercultural reading. Methodologically, the author mobilizes a comparative approach grounded in symbolic repertoires and historical-cultural references, articulating descriptions of mythologies and representations with the identification of semantic continuities and reconfigurations over time. The main conclusions highlight that, although the blue magpie may be recognized in specific records as a concrete species, its persistence in the cultural imagination primarily stems from the recurrence of attributes associated with flight, color, and the "messenger" character of birds. Thus, the bird's "passage" between cultural universes is not merely a circulation of motifs but a reinterpretation of meanings, in which East and West engage in dialogue through shared categories and contextual differences. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |