journalist and photographers Eloy Vera Javier Melian and Carlos de Saa are the main proponents of these two publications about the idiosyncrasies majorera
The first editions of 'Fuerteventura. The sea, the sea 'and' Fuerteventura. Water ', edited by the Publications Service of the City Council, yesterday saw the light with the public presentation held yesterday at the Library Center Island (Puerto del Rosario) to more than one hundred people.
Cabildo president Mario Cabrera, and the mayor of Puerto del Rosario, Marcial Morales, accompanied in this act majorero journalist Vera Eloy Sosa, responsible for the preparation of texts and documentary work has resulted in these two books. It has also been important to take forward these two publications, the work of photographers Carlos de Saa, responsible for the images that illustrate the book on the sea, and Javier Melian, author of the photographs of the water.
The Ministry of Culture and Historical Heritage of the City Council is the promoter of two publications, as described Eloy Vera, "have as a starting point and the sea water in the life history and Fuerteventura" , and "try to reach readers through texts light and strength of their images."
Mario Cabrera assessed the occurrence of these two publications as "a commitment to provide informative perspective a new vision of two elements is necessary to disclose because they talk about our identity and our culture and that until now had no specific literature too, but have nevertheless played a crucial role in the development of society Fuerteventura.
"Water has always been present in life of rural people, living in an arid island looked at the sky hoping for rain, and when I got had the wisdom to economize. This is the end of the day is an interesting analogy to the present time, when many of the institutions' efforts in this area are directed to complete the cycle of water from desalination using renewable energies and reuse wastewater. As for the sea, is related to the sadness in the memories of families who saw his men leave the island in bad times, and the future that draws on tourism has given us so much and the necessary balance proposed since the declaration of Fuerteventura as a Biosphere Reserve, "said Cabrera.
Marcial Morales highlighted the work of the Publications Service of the council that" for many years has worked to expand the bibliography on Fuerteventura "and congratulated Eloy Vera, who after their exertions" joins a long list of intellectuals who have inquired about the past, culture and identity Fuerteventura.
Eloy Vera described the creative process for the realization of these two books whose work began in the summer of 2010, and since then has "brought an important documentary reviewing everything written so far on Fuerteventura in recent centuries, most recently in publications like the magazine Tebet or study days on Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.
However, he added, this would not have been possible without the collaboration "all the people who volunteered to do interviews, and finally stars out of books such as fishermen majoreros or farmers. "
The sea is the sea. Fuerteventura
Eloy Vera Sosa said about this publication that his first conclusion is" the demystification of Fuerteventura an island that lives behind the sea. Both older references such as the fossil record or the chronicles of Le Canarien, shows that the former inhabitants of the island incorporated in your diet food from the sea. Later, it is recorded how the arrival of settlers Normans introduced Andalusian and Portuguese words related to fishing, or even new offices as the shipwright.
also talked about how "in times of scarcity the marine diet was a saving resource for many people, what is recorded in ancient records of the council." He said , "this book can serve as a tribute to the fishing trade, which has left us habits as barter with the farmer, the coastal trademark system, traditions and Marian processions, etc..
' Fuerteventura. Water '
Eloy Vera first thanked the collaboration of the historian Javier Sánchez majorero for its contribution to the documentary work of this book. Regarding the evolution of the relationship between population and water Fuerteventura, Vera said in the first place "is the question we know what real reliance were the aborigines of the water, it is not clear that there is a pre-European agriculture, although it is known that their settlements were located in the surroundings of the canyons, or digging in the mountains in search. "
With colonization, "comes the dependence of the population to climate cycles" and their relation to religious events, when people are entrusted to the Catholic deities to ask the arrival of the rains, as reflected for example minutes of the Council "which was recorded in the unique procession that carried the Virgin of La Peña for various locations of the island into an important period of drought."
This unit also led those who were possibly the most dramatic periods in the history of Fuerteventura, when scarcity of rain caused events such as mass migration, mobilization of island leaders to seek help outside or even the death of many majoreros for lack of food.
Vera Sosa also spoke resource extraction soil water in the history of the island, from the first well, the talent to the creation of reservoirs, the figure of dowsers to find water in the soil turned into Varistas, or the development of extraction systems from systems of pulleys, wheels, the arrival of Australian windmills or diesel engines.
Already in the twentieth century, the author spoke of events like Lallermand Admiral interventions seeking to send water to Fuerteventura, or the arrival of modernity with the installation of the first desalination plant in Fuerteventura in the year 1969, emphasizing the latter point the work of César engineer Castañeyra in the implementation of this technology that eventually led to water supplies throughout Fuerteventura.
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