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O estudo dos portos de pequena e média dimensão têm-se revelado essenciais para a compreensão das dinâmicas económicas portuárias do Portugal Moderno. A nossa dissertação de mestrado, centrada num caso de estudo, o porto de caminha no século XVI, segue este quadro teórico. Localizada na fronteira do noroeste português, Caminha é um exemplo de uma comunidade marítima inserida num importante complexo portuário. Rodeada por portos de maior dimensão - Pontevedra, Viana do Castelo, Vila do Conde, Porto, Caminha teve um papel a desempenhar nos jogos de complementaridades, definidas no noroeste português. A análise de diversas tipologias documentais permitiu o conhecimento de algumas dinâmicas desta comunidade: o espaço físico (geomorfologia da barra e condições de bavegabilidade); o espaço social e sua projecção na topografia urbana; questões de identidade do grupo dos homens do mar; actividades económicas desempenhadas (pesca, navegação e comércio marítimo) e questões de sociabilidade.

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<p>This thesis examines the production of commercial art in contemporary Mozambique. It explores the power relationship between local artists &ndash / painters and sculptors &ndash / and their patrons and brokers in the art market. This means, on one hand, that it looks at the artworks that have been produced during the late colonial period (1962 &ndash / 1974) and the post-colonial periods (June 1975 - 2010) and relates this to the changing political landscape in Mozambique. On the other hand, the aim is to explore the artists&rsquo / life histories,&nbsp / especially how their talent was first recognized, their art training (formal or otherwise), previous work experience, and the reasons for their current success (or lack thereof). This is done in order to see how and to what extent their artistic works have been influenced by external forces or actors. The power relationship existing between the art producers and their customers in the art markets in Mozambique is then related to the issue of globalisation. In this process, the study critically analyses who the actual art patrons of Mozambique art are and the extent to which Mozambican art is influenced by global forces. The focus is on a number of artists and the thesis examines their life histories specific to their art production in order to highlight the themes and trends of their art works. It was found that local art produced in Mozambique is not simply responding to local influences but also to global forces, of which the latter dominates. However, the study further reveals that while the art producers are influenced externally by their buyers, they (the art&nbsp / producers) have their own ways of manipulating their buyers in order to be able to sell their products. In other words, the artists have the power of mediating between local,&nbsp / personal influence and that of the patrons.</p>

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Reproduction de : Thèse de docteur : informatique : Grenoble, INPG : 1983. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre.

Reproduction de : Mémoire d'ingénieur : informatique : Grenoble, CNAM : 1986. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of Iowa. / "Notes and references": p. 217-248.

Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Calcutta.