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ANIMA – Encounters with Wild Animals in Portugal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Um mito \u00e9 uma hist\u00f3ria de um tempo em que homens e animais n\u00e3o tinham diferen\u00e7a.<\/strong> Viver numa terra partilhada com outras esp\u00e9cies com as quais n\u00e3o conseguimos comunicar \u00e9 a mais tr\u00e1gica, a mais ofensiva falha para o cora\u00e7\u00e3o e a alma humana. Os mitos recusam aceitar essa condi\u00e7\u00e3o como original. Anima \u2013 Encontros com animais selvagens em Portugal<\/em>, de Andr\u00e9 Pr\u00edncipe, est\u00e1 em sintonia com esses mitos.
Encontrar animais de forma significativa no nosso territ\u00f3rio \u00e9 hoje muito dif\u00edcil, devido \u00e0 ignor\u00e2ncia, \u00e0 crueldade, \u00e0 perda de habitat, ao total desrespeito, ao desejo de domina\u00e7\u00e3o e de lucro. Quando os animais nos v\u00eaem, fogem, correm ou viram-nos as costas \u2014 sabiamente. As fotografias deste livro s\u00e3o retratos tirados com uma lente normal, que reproduz o nosso campo de vis\u00e3o. N\u00e3o s\u00e3o um exerc\u00edcio voyeur\u00edstico de observa\u00e7\u00e3o do comportamento animal, mas uma tentativa de encontro com os animais como nossos iguais.
As imagens foram feitas ao longo de 20 anos, em Portugal continental, nos A\u00e7ores e na Madeira. S\u00e3o o resultado de muita paci\u00eancia, muita espera, e da ajuda de quem ainda sabe sobre os animais. Em portugu\u00eas, a palavra retratos <\/em>significa tamb\u00e9m voltar atr\u00e1s. Na terra, ainda podemos ver vest\u00edgios de tempos em que homens e animais, de forma quase psicad\u00e9lica, viviam juntos. Esses vest\u00edgios, est\u00e1tuas, desenhos, encontraram o seu caminho at\u00e9 este livro. S\u00e3o um lembrete de como as coisas podem ser.
Na escola, disseram-nos que os animais que viviam em Portugal eram domesticados: c\u00e3es, gatos, galinhas, porcos, cavalos. Os animais selvagens viviam em terras distantes ou nos nossos zool\u00f3gicos. Em quase todas as culturas, os nomes dos animais s\u00e3o das primeiras palavras ditas pelas crian\u00e7as. E, no entanto, qu\u00e3o desiludidas e aborrecidas elas ficam quando as levamos ao jardim zool\u00f3gico! Aqueles n\u00e3o s\u00e3o os animais como elas os conhecem, como os nomearam.
H\u00e1 apenas 35 000 anos, viviam elefantes na Costa Vicentina, no sudoeste de Portugal. Cachalotes, abutres, focas, tubar\u00f5es, camale\u00f5es, veados e \u00e1guias ainda vivem c\u00e1. As crian\u00e7as lembram-se daquilo que os nossos professores h\u00e1 muito esqueceram. Este \u00e9 um livro para crian\u00e7as. Aspira conter a sabedoria das crian\u00e7as.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A myth is a story from the time when men and animals had no difference. To live in a shared land with other species with whom we cannot communicate is the most tragic, the most offensive, fault to the human heart and soul. Myths refuse to accept that condition as original. Andr\u00e9 Pr\u00edncipe\u2019s Anima \u2013 Encounters with wild animals in Portugal – is in line with those myths.
Meaningful encounters with animals in our land are now very difficult due to ignorance, cruelty, loss of habitat, utter disrespect, desire for domination and profit. When animals see us, they wisely fly away, run away, or turn their back to us. The photographs in this book are portraits using a normal lens that reproduces our field of vision. They are not about voyeuristically observing animal behavior, but an attempt to encounter animals as our equals.
The images were taken across continental Portugal, the Azores and Madeira, over a period of 20 years. They are the result of a lot of patience, a lot of waiting, a lot of help from those who still know about animals. In Portuguese language, the word for portraits \u2013 retratos \u2013 means going back. On the land, we can still see traces of times when men and animals, psychedelically, lived together. These traces, statues, drawings found their way to this book. They are a reminder of how things can be.
 In school, we were told that the animals that lived in Portugal were domesticated; dogs, cats, chickens, pigs, horses. The wild animals lived in distant lands, or in our zoos. In almost every culture, the names of animals are some of the very first words said by children. And yet, how disappointed and bored they are when you take them to a zoo! Those aren\u2019t the animals as they know them, as they named them.
Only 35 000 years ago, elephants lived in Costa Vicentina, southwest of Portugal. Sperm whales, vultures, seals, sharks, chameleons, deer and eagles still do.  Children remember what our teachers forgot long ago. This is a children\u00b4s book. It aspires to contain the wisdom of children.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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