GEOGRAPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGY: CULTURAL HERITAGE IN OPENNESS

Authors

  • Rafael Henrique Teixeira da Silva Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/geo.v16i1.35953

Keywords:

Heritage, São Cristóvão/SE, Poetic, Phenomenology

Abstract

How to capture heritage in its essence? This was the initial question that we asked ourselves and which stimulated the explorations carried out in the city of São Cristóvão/SE (Brazil). In this way, we follow up with the proposal of a geographical poetics, based on a Bachelardian phenomenology and on the experience as an epistemological scale. In this sense, through the act of walking through the city, we became available for the local heritage to reveal itself. By alternating moments of movement and stillness, we maintained an attitude of providential serenity to let things appear as they are. We stopped looking for concepts and ways to only allow the heritage to come to us. We abandoned calculating and technical thinking for creative and poetic thinking. Thus, we ceased to ask for its meaning and went in search of the uncovered heritage full of meaning, to become part of it. A heritage that is revealed only when it is performed, not when it is withheld.

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Author Biography

Rafael Henrique Teixeira da Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Pós-doutorando (PNPD) do Programa de Pós-graduação Interdisciplinar em Estudos do Lazer-UFMG, doutor em Geografia pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho

Published

2020-06-29

How to Cite

Silva, R. H. T. da. (2020). GEOGRAPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGY: CULTURAL HERITAGE IN OPENNESS. GeoTextos, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.9771/geo.v16i1.35953

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Ensaios