No. 8 (2016): Rituales funerarios en la Nueva España
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La muerte en la mar. Ética y restos humanos en pecios históricos.

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  • Luis J. Abejez,
  • Cristina Corona Jamaica
Luis J. Abejez
LAB-PATC, Red IBERTUR / Universidad de Barcelona
Cristina Corona Jamaica
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México / Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Published 2016-07-01

Keywords

  • Mar,
  • ética,
  • restos humanos,
  • pecios históricos,
  • arqueología subacuática,
  • caza-tesoros
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La muerte en la mar. Ética y restos humanos en pecios históricos. (2016). Vita Brevis, 8, 136-153. https://revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/vitabrevis/article/view/8524

Abstract

Resumen:

La mar forma parte de la vida de los seres humanos desde tiempos inmemoriales y, por ello, posee las infinitas evocaciones que de toda relación humana se desprenden. Asimismo, en sus aguas se encuentran los restos de miles de embarcaciones y de todos aquellos que con ellas se hundieron. La mar es, por lo tanto, un espacio poliédrico y, como tal, es también un espacio simbólico y funerario, por lo que el respeto por los restos humanos que alberga debiera de ser un imperativo ético para cualquier actividad que en ella se realice. En este trabajo se expondrá el particular contexto en el que se encuentran los restos humanos en pecios históricos, las circunstancias que los rodean y los motivos de una situación que los aboca a su destrucción y que es más compleja de lo que a simple vista aparenta.

 

Abstract:

The sea is part of the life of human beings since immemorial times, and thus it possesses endless evocations from which all human relationships arise. Also in its waters are the remains of thousands of ships and of all those sank with them. The sea is therefore a polyhedral space and, as such, it’s also a symbolic and burial space. For this reason, the respect for the human remains that it contains should be an ethical imperative for any human activity taking part in it. In this paper we discuss the specific context in which human remains are found in historic shipwrecks, and the circumstances and the reasons that drives them to their destruction, which are more complex than they appear at first sight.

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