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The mayor of Tourism, Clara Valverde, presided last weekend at the House of Culture "Francisco Rabal," the presentation of the second edition of "The symbolic world of the fishermen of Eagles", the publisher Natursport written by anthropologist and professor Juan Ruiz Parra aquiline.
Valverde, who was accompanied by the author and by Councilman Young, Juan José Asensio said that this work is to combine a set of ideas and knowledge that local fishermen harbor around his office, a hard profession fully rooted this land, that it is even the basis for Tourism Competitiveness Plan "Eagles, Sea and Fisheries", which involves actions such as the creation of the new Interpretation Centre Ocean-Aquarium recently opened.
For this reason, management of the Plan has supported so I could see the light this reissue.
According to the author, "the choice of this sector to conduct an anthropological study rested on the premise that the psychological mechanism of creating ideas intensely magical character operates in contexts of emotional stress. Ocean, ever changing and uncontrollable forces it was an environment conducive to the existence of this kind of thinking "means.
Parra Ruiz explained that, throughout its pages, the ethnographic record is accompanied by a descriptive analysis from the point of view of comparative anthropology, it helps to understand certain behaviors of fishermen.
The reader will doubtless be astonished to find that you can still hear the song of the sirens or be eaten by the dreaded "Bicha del Fraile", see a sailor crossing himself because he has broken a witch accoutrements or cross a ghost ship unexpectedly emerged from the fog.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas
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