QUESTIONANDO AS DELIMITAÇÕES CARTOGRÁFICAS DA CULTURA

Abstract

Starting from the reflection on the hybrid, permeable and dynamic nature of culture,
this article traces a reflection on the possibilities of its cartographic representation.
Assuming culture as an intangible entity, or even, "a collective imagination," and
based on Benedict Anderson's argument about the idea of nation, the hypothesis is
that the delimitation of cultural elements or of the culture itself is wrong For this, this
study assumes that cultural representations have totalizing pretensions, but are only
individual expressions or expressions of specific collectivities. The article also
presents mental maps as ways of overcoming the dilemmas of the representation of
cultural elements, as long as they abandon the pretension of totality and present
themselves as expressions of individual experiences or well-defined groups.
Therefore, mental maps should not be intended as representations of the culture
itself. Even their synthesis would be essentially totalizing and incompatible with
individual interpretations or restricted groups