Open AccessMemória e topofilia no semi-árido baiano: imagens do cotidiano de velhos agricultores do sisal
Author(s) -
Alessandra Alexandre Freixo,
Ana María Freitas Teixeira
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
visualidades
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2317-6784
pISSN - 1679-6748
DOI - 10.5216/vis.v9i2.19855
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , point (geometry) , geography , history , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , geometry
The purpose of this paper is to understand the meanings produced by elderly farmers in Valente (Bahia, Brazil) about their place, taken as a starting point for understanding their relationship to the environment. For this, we rely on stories as well as in filmic records, taken as raw material for the construction of a memory about the place, inextricably articulated to the daily experiences of the elder and his representations of the past, that serves as an adjunct in the interpretation of their reality