MAPPING INTANGIBLE PHENOMENA
Abstract
The article contributes to Cultural Geography through a methodological proposal to map highly specific cultural themes, such as phobia. Focusing on an epistemological reflection about the representation of culture in the surroundings of a cemetery in Salinas City, located in the northern region of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, the article advocates a methodological solution based on identities and abandons the pretense of totalizing representations. The result is a useful alternative to studies that evaluate the attributes of landscape and place and a more comprehensive range of studies on perception.
Keywords: Salinas City; Brazil; Cultural Geography; Epistemological Reflection; Culture; Identities; Phobia.
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ANDERSON, Kay; SMITH, Susan. Emotional Geographies. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. V.26, n.1, p.7-10, 2001.
ANDREOTTI, Giuliana. Paisagens do espírito: a encenação da alma. Ateliê Geográfico, v.4, n.4, p.264-280, 2010.
AOKI, Y. Review article: trends in the study of the psychological evaluation of landscape. Landscape Research, 24 (1), 85-94. 1999.
APPLETON, Jay. Landscape evaluation: the theoretical vacuum. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, n.66, nov., p.120-123, 1975.
APPLETON, Jay. Running before we can walk: are we ready to map “beauty”? Landscape Research, v.19, n.3, p.112-119, 1994.
BARBOSA, A. D. et.al. Distribuição espacial de acidentes escorpiônicos em Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, de 2005 a 2009. Arquivo brasileiro de medicina veterinária e zootecnia, V.66, nº3, junho, p.721-730, 2014.
BRASSLEY, P. On the unrecognized significance of the ephemeral landscape. Landscape Research, 23 (2), 119-132. 1998.
CAPEL, Horácio. Ruptura e continuidade no pensamento geográfico. (in): Capel, Horacio. Ruptura e continuidade no pensamento geográfico. Maringá: EDUEM, 2013.
CHAKRABARTY, Dipesh. The power of superstition in public life in India. Economic and Political Weekly. V.43, nº 20, p.16-19, May, 17, 2008.
CLAMP, Peter. The landscape evaluation controversy. Landscape Research, v.6, n.2, p.13-15, 1981.
CLAVAL, Paul. A Geografia Cultural. Florianópolis: EdUFSC, 2001.
COHEN, Anthony P. Culture as identity: an anthropologist´s view. New Literary History, v.24, n.1, winter, p.195-209, 1993.
CORRÊA, R.L. (2011). Denis Cosgrove – a paisagem e as imagens [Denis Cosgrove - the landscape and the images]. Espaço e Cultura, 29, 7-21. 2011.
COSGROVE, D. On “the reinvention of cultural geography” by Price and Lewis. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 83 (3), 515-517. 1993.
DUNCAN, James S. The superorganic in american cultural geography. Annals of the association of American geographers. V.70, nº2, p.181-198, june, 1980.
FRANCAVIGLIA, Richard V. The cemetery as an Evolving Cultural Landscape. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. V.61, nº3, September, 501-509, 1971.
GARTNER, G. Putting Emotions in Maps–The Wayfinding Example. (In) Proceedings of the 8th Mountain Cartography Workshop, Auckland, New Zealand, 1–5 September, pp. 61–65, 2012.
HALBWACHS, Maurice. A Memória Coletiva. São Paulo: Editora Vértice, 1990.
HALL, Stuart. Pensando a diáspora: reflexões sobre a terra no exterior. (in) Sovik, Liv (org). Da diáspora: identidades e mediações culturais. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2013.
HARRIS-LACEWELL, Melissa. Do you Know what it means... mapping emotion in the aftermath of Katrina. A critical journal of black politics, culture and society. V.9, n.1, p.28-44, 2007.
JACKSON, Peter. Geography and the cultural turn. Scottish Geographical Magazine. V.113, n.3, p.186-188, 1997.
KROEBER, Alfred. The superorganic. American anthropologist. V.19, nº2, april-june, p.163-213, 1917.
LOWENTHAL, D. Island, Lovers and Others. Geographical Review, 97 (2), 202-229. 2007. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2007.tb00399.x
LOWENTHAL, David. Finding valued landscapes. Progress in Human Geography, v.2, i.3, march, p.373-418, 1978.
MANNING, O.D. Landscapes revisited: a note on the methodology of criticism. Landscape Research, 20 (2), p.77-86. 1995.
MITCHELL, Don. There's No Such Thing as Culture: Towards a Reconceptualization of the Idea of Culture in Geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. New Series, v.20, n.1, p.102-116, 1995.
PENNING-ROWSELL, Edmund C. A public preference evaluation of landscape quality. Regional Studies, v.16, i.2, p.97-112, 1982.
PITTE, Jean-Robert. A short cultural geography of death and the dead. Geojournal: V.60, p.345-351, 2004.
RIBEIRO, Vitor Moraes; Perusi, Maria Cristina. Restrição à expansão do cemitério municipal de Ourinhos-SP e as condições sanitárias da população do entorno. Revista Geografia e Pesquisa. V.4, nº1, p.75-97, 2010.
SAÏD, Edward W. Orientalismo: o Oriente como invenção do Ocidente. São Paulo: Companhia de Bolso, 2007.
SAÏD, Edward. Cultura e Imperialismo. São Paulo: Companhia de Bolso, 2011.
SILVA, Leonardo Luiz Silveira da; Costa, Alfredo. A inadequação das regionalizações culturais mediante os pressupostos do pós-colonialismo. Salvador: Geotextos, v.14, nº1, p.225-247, julho, 2018a.
SILVA, Leonardo Luiz Silveira da; COSTA, Alfredo. Cultura como comunidade imaginada: uma crítica à abordagem ontológica da cultura nos estudos geográficos. Geografias, v.16. nº1, p.27-41, 2018b.
TANAS, S. (2004). "The Cemetery as a Part of the Geography of Tourism." Turyzm 14(2): 71-87.
TUAN, Yi-Fu. Escapism. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1998.
TUAN, Yi-Fu. Paisagens do Medo. São Paulo: Editora Unesp, 2005.
TUAN, Yi-Fu. Topofilia: um estudo da percepção, atitudes e valores do meio ambiente. São Paulo: Difel, 1980.
VALENTINE, Gill. Whatever happened to the social? Reflections on the “cultural turn” in British Human Geography. Norwegian Journal of Geography, v.55, p.166-172, 2001.
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SILVA, Leonardo Luiz Silveira da; COSTA, Alfredo; MATOS, Geraldo Magela.
MAPPING INTANGIBLE PHENOMENA.
Mercator, Fortaleza, v. 20, mar. 2021.
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