Reclaimed Anchors in Urban Contexts: Case Studies from Buenos Aires, Puerto Madryn, and Puerto Pirámides (Argentina)
Anchors are one of the most important nautical elements throughout the history of navigation. Research in maritime archaeology has dealt with their origin, development, characteristics, performance, and their image portrayed in different materials. On occasions, anchors are discarded or lost, and th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
The international journal of nautical archaeology
Year: 2025, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 198-217 |
| Further subjects: | B
symbolic
B mdīna būīns āʾāīrs B ba ta ge ni ya zhong bei bu B anclas modernas y contemporáneas B xian dang dai chuan mao B rmzīa B Patagonia centro-norte B bu yi nuo si ai li si B ālmrāsī ālḥdīṯa ūālmʿāṣra B north-central Patagonia B šmāl ūsṭ bātāġūnīā B Buenos Aires B Buenos Aires city B modern and contemporary anchors B xiang zheng B simbólico |
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| Summary: | Anchors are one of the most important nautical elements throughout the history of navigation. Research in maritime archaeology has dealt with their origin, development, characteristics, performance, and their image portrayed in different materials. On occasions, anchors are discarded or lost, and then reclaimed to be exhibited in different places, such as institutions, stores, or public space. This paper studies 43 cases of reclaimed anchors in three urban contexts of Argentina: Puerto Madryn, Puerto Pirámides (north-central Patagonia), and the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. Through morphological analysis, interviews, and enquiry of documental sources we aim to explore the primary nautical context of the anchors, and to analyse their new environments and interpretations about the object’s meaning. We conceive this practice as a global phenomenon, replicated locally with specific implications. Anchors are regarded in different and even contradictory ways – as ornaments, vehicles of memories, and markers of a maritime cultural landscape. |
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| ISSN: | 1095-9270 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal of nautical archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/10572414.2024.2319802 |
