"O Borda d'Água" and "O Seringador"

 

“O Borda d’Água” is one of the most iconic Portuguese Almanacs, along with “O Seringador”

In Portugal, both "O Seringador " (158 years of uninterrupted publication) and "O Borda d’Água " (94 uninterrupted years), do not have online version.

 

The century history of the printed Portuguese almanacs: "O Seringador" and "O Borda d’Água", empirical corpus of contemporary lusophony and communication practices.

 

The almanac is a popular cultural artifact, that means, a narrative that merges scientific knowledge and popular folklore, in one side in the traditionalism and another in the contemporary world.

 

The historiographical study combined with the theory of Folk Communication reveals the ways in which people experience and give meaning to the communication practices, distinguish the past and identify their culture. The Portuguese almanacs, "O Seringador" and "O Borda d`Água" are the empirical corpus: object folk comunicacional: visual, printed, almanac.

Sources/Links:

Almanaques de Cordel: um estudo sobre o Seringador e o Borda d’Água

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320458597_Almanaques_de_Cordel_um_estudo_sobre_o_Seringador_e_o_Borda_d'Agua

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