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," andbased on Benedict Anderson's argument about the idea of nation, the hypothesis isthat the delimitation of cultural elements or of the culture itself is wrong For this, thisstudy assumes that cultural representations have totalizing pretensions, but are onlyindividual expressions or expressions of specific collectivities. The article alsopresents mental maps as ways of overcoming the dilemmas of the representation ofcultural elements, as long as they abandon the pretension of totality and presentthemselves as expressions of individual experiences or well-defined groups.Therefore, mental maps should not be intended as representations of the cultureitself. Even their synthesis would be essentially totalizing and incompatible withindividual interpretations or restricted groups

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