Ritual of blessing the tuna fishing nets in Algarve (Portugal), between the 30's and 60's

• Autor(a) principal: Batista, Nuno
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Marçal Gonçalves, Marta
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/10343
• topic: Tuna fishing; Immaterial heritage; Algarve; Portugal

This paper describes the religious blessing procedure of tuna fishing nets before being launched into the sea, in Algarve, between the decades 30 and 60, when it abruptly ended. The authors describe how blessing of tuna fishing nets was made, based on interviews with peo-ple involved in this art, using photos provided by those, complemented by documentary analysis and bibliographic research. In the course of the work it was discovered that such religious prac-tice took place in Faro beach, in Algarve, for long decades, involving almost 200 families that lived there temporarily for 4 months per year, each year. The main results of this research are the awareness that this heritage, which is being lost, and the consequent urgency of an adequate registration and disclosure to the valuation of such sustainable asset, that is scarce.