Iberian Studies

¿Con el pincel extranjero?: Un fragmento inédito de vasija ibérica con un texto fenicio pintado hallado en La Alcudia de Elche (Alicante, España) [With a foreign brush? A fragment of Iberian ware with a painted Phoenician text from La Alcudia de Elche (Alicante, Spain)]

by José Ángel ZAMORA

Published in:

G. del Olmo – J. Vidal – N. Wyatt (eds.), The Perfumes of Seven Tamarisks:
Studies in Honour of Wilfred G. E. Watson (AOAT 394), Münster 2012, pp. 293-314.

Fenicios y púnicos fueron protagonistas, en el extremo Occidente mediterráneo, de fundamentales procesos históricos de... more Fenicios y púnicos fueron protagonistas, en el extremo Occidente mediterráneo, de fundamentales procesos históricos de los que no siempre tenemos rastro adecuado. Los testimonios epigráficos hallados en la Península Ibérica constituyen por ello, como fuentes directas, un imprescindible elemento a considerar. En el estudio de los complejos fenómenos de interacción que tuvieron lugar en el solar peninsular, son especialmente interesantes los epígrafes hallados fuera de las zonas de asentamiento semítico, incluso aquellos documentos de menor entidad aparente.
Dentro de un nuevo proyecto de revisión sistemática de las inscripciones fenicias halladas en la Península Ibérica y en sus alrededores, durante el año 2010 pudimos acometer el estudio de la epigrafía del importante yacimiento peninsular de La Alcudia de Elche (Alicante, España) –famoso por ser el lugar de hallazgo de la conocida "Dama de Elche"– donde materiales fenicio-púnicos –algunos inscritos– aparecen en contexto ibérico. Durante una estancia de estudio en su museo pudimos identificar una singular pieza inédita: un fragmento de crátera ibérica, fabricada en zona edetana o turdetana, con los restos de lo que fue un texto fenicio pintado en la vasija durante la factura de esta.
El nuevo documento es en efecto un texto fenicio (quizá votivo) pintado sobre una crátera ibérica antes de su cocción. Se ejecutó por tanto en un taller cerámico, que debió situarse en algún punto del Levante peninsular o de la Alta Andalucía, durante el s. IV a. n. e. Constituye una prueba directa de la presencia de un perfecto conocedor de la lengua y escritura fenicias en un ambiente originalmente indígena. La mano y pincel que ejecutaron el texto, independientemente de su lugar de origen, pertenecieron a un individuo culturalmente fenicio o altamente fenicizado (además de letrado). Actuaba en pleno ámbito productivo local haciendo uso, con naturalidad, de su lengua y escritura semíticas.

Cebreiro Ares, F (2012) "Dificultades que plantea el estudio de la historia monetaria sueva" // "Problems on Suevic monetary history"

by Francisco Cebreiro Ares

in Cebreiro Ares (ed) Introducción a la Historia Monetaria de Galicia (s. II a. C. - XVII d. C.) A Coruña, 2012.

Overview on Suevic monetary history Overview on Suevic monetary history

La defensa de los oppida ibéricos: la descripción, la interpretación y el análisis de las fortificaciones ibéricas

by Enrique Díes Cusí

Publicado en Alebus 13 (2011) Actas del III Seminario de Historia. La Iberia de los Oppida ante su romanización. Elda, 2003. Pp.9-27

L'affirmation des élites indigènes en Hispanie septentrionale à l'époque républicaine

by Nathalie Barrandon

¿Dónde estaban los Turdetani? Recovecos y metamorfosis de un nombre, de Catón a Estrabón

by Pierre Moret

In M. Álvarez Martí-Aguilar (ed.), Fenicios en Tartesos: nuevas perspectivas, Oxford, Archaeopress, BAR S2245, 2011, p. 235-248

A new scrutiny of Livy’s account for the year 195 and of Cato’s fragments leads us to assume that the people called... more A new scrutiny of Livy’s account for the year 195 and of Cato’s fragments leads us to assume that the people called Turdetani by the Romans at the beginning of the conquest of Spain was situated in Southeast Meseta, presumably in the surroundings of the saltus Castulonensis. A completely different location, in the lower Guadalquivir valley, is given by Strabo to Turdetania in the third book of his Geography. Nevertheless, Strabo’s conception appears to be quite isolated when compared with other sources. Significant authors (mainly Roman ones) do not designate as Turdetani the inhabitants of the Baetis valley and do not use Turdetania as a loose synonym of Baetica. Moreover, epigraphic sources show that Turdetanus was not used among Hispani for self-designation. It can be therefore argued that the current use of Turdetania among archaeologists as the name of a cultural complex of the lower Andalusia is a questionable artefact of modern historiography.

Fermento da República, bolor do Império: Civilização Ibérica, Excepcionalismo, e o legado luso-brasileiro do Lusotropicalismo

by Pedro Pereira

This essay highlights the persistence of lusotropical tropes in the political, cultural, and academic discourses on... more This essay highlights the persistence of lusotropical tropes in the political, cultural, and academic discourses on the multi-racial legacy of Portuguese colonialism and offers a quick discussion of recently-held critical stances by key scholars as a point of departure. It proposes to carry out the heuristic task of revisiting lusotropicalism’s conceptual genealogy, in order to capture some paradigmatic traits of its specific mode of writing and to deepen our understanding of the historical context in which such discursive field emerges. This essay is offered as a preliminary and indirect contribution to the debate about the status of postcolonial studies in the “time-space of the Portuguese language.” With this goal in mind, I conduct a reading of a forgotten text by Oliveira Martins in which we can find the rudiments of what we tentatively call a grammar of lusotropicalism. I also offer for analysis a set of texts signed by Oliveira Lima, in which we find a set of assertions (on the issues of miscegenation and race in Portuguese and Brazilian colonial history) permeated by tropes that were already found in Oliveira Martins; these assertions anticipate by more than a decade some formulations key to Gilberto Freyre’s work in Casa Grande e Senzala. Keywords: lusotropicalism; exceptionalism; Iberian civilization; miscegenation; postcolonialism; race; Oliveira Martins; Oliveira Lima

CfP: "SPACES WRITTEN IN VIOLENCE/VIOLENCE WRITTEN IN SPACES: PERSPECTIVES IN IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES" (The Tulane University Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference)

by Sophie Sarah Esch

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Tulane University Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference

SPACES... more CALL FOR PAPERS
The Tulane University Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference

SPACES WRITTEN IN VIOLENCE/VIOLENCE WRITTEN IN SPACES
PERSPECTIVES IN IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES

March 23-24, 2012

Spaces can be conceived as texts that contain information about how they were written. The converse is also true. Texts can be conceived as spaces, and they contain information about how they were configured. Texts also create and produce space(s). The Humanities and Social Sciences have increasingly turned to space as an analytical category and have drawn attention to its intrinsic relation to power and violence.
Particularly since the epistemic violence of colonialism marked the world, Iberian and Latin American literatures and cultures have been crucial in writing spaces in violence and in writing violence in space(s): From the cartas de relación to the corrido, from codices to the rise and fall of the lettered city, from testimonio to Almodóvar's and Meireilles's cinematic endeavors, these literary and cultural expressions have constituted, negotiated, created and reflected upon spaces and violence.
This conference hopes to further explore the relationship between space(s) and violence in Iberian and Latin American literatures and cultures. Possible topics include: political, social and/or economic violence taking place in urban or rural spaces, border spaces, transnational or post-national contexts; gendered spaces of violence; violence in specific regions (such as the Andes, Central America, the Caribbean) or time periods (such as Early Modern, the Long 19th Century, Spanish Civil War, Franco Era, Latin American revolutions); spaces where violence is remembered, celebrated or mourned; and textual strategies for narrating violence.
We seek papers in English, Spanish or Portuguese pertinent to the studies of Peninsular, Transatlantic and Latin American literatures and cultures. Students who are working on literature, art, architecture, film, TV, music, dance, comics or any other cultural expression are encouraged to apply.

Keynote Speakers

Juan Pablo Dabove, University of Colorado at Boulder

Yuri Herrera, Tulane University


Please send abstracts of 250-300 words to tulanegrad.spanport@gmail.com. Please include your name, phone number, and institutional affiliation in your email. Individual presentations may be up to 20 minutes in length (approx. 7-8 pages, typed, double-spaced).

The deadline for abstract submissions is January 15, 2012

All travel and lodging for the conference will be the responsibility of the participants. We will do our best, however, to accommodate participants in the homes of Tulane graduate students. For more information, please contact us by email.

Crónica de onomástica paleo-hispânica (7)

by António Marques de Faria

published in 'Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia', 7:1, 2004.

Crónica de onomástica paleo-hispânica (9)

by António Marques de Faria

published in 'Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia', 8:1, 2005.

Crónica de onomástica paleo-hispânica (10)

by António Marques de Faria

published in 'Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia', 8:2, 2005.

Novas notas de onomástica hispânica pré-romana

by António Marques de Faria

published in 'Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia', 2:1, 1999.

Novas achegas para o estudo da onomástica ibérica e turdetana

by António Marques de Faria

published in 'Vipasca', 4, 1995.

Subsídios para o estudo da antroponímia ibérica

by António Marques de Faria

published in 'Vipasca', 3, 1994.

Crónica de onomástica paleohispânica (17)

by António Marques de Faria

published in 'Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia', 13, 2010 [2011].

To What Can We Attribute the Extraordinary Success of Les veus del Pamano?

by Todd Mack

Published in "Visat" the online journal of the Catalan PEN society

Una inscripción ibérica sobre plomo procedente del poblado de la Moleta del Remei (Alcanar, Montsià, Tarragona)

by David Garcia i Rubert

Co-authored with FERRER, J.; MORENO, I.; VELAZA, J.

El plantejament urbanístic i defensiu del poblat de la Moleta del Remei (Alcanar, Montsià) durant la primera edat del ferro

by David Garcia i Rubert

Un probable context funerari d’època iberoromana a la partida de la Carrova (Amposta, Montsià)

by David Garcia i Rubert

Co-authored with VILLALBÍ, Mª M.
Published in Actes de les Ieres. Jornades d’Arqueologia Ibers a l’Ebre. Recerca i interpretació.  Ilercavònia, 3: 229-250.

"Los mitos de Viriato" (The myths around Viriathus") (in Spanish)

by Fernando Quesada-Sanz

Anuario Vaccea, 4, 2011, pp. 36-40

A short overview of the different myths, ancient and modern, built around the figure of Viriathus, the Lusitanian... more A short overview of the different myths, ancient and modern, built around the figure of Viriathus, the Lusitanian leader.

Portugual's African Wars As Told By Some

by Mustafah Dhada