The materialization of the culture in the space: the cultural codes and the identification processes

Abstract

The culture presupposes all the imaterial and material aspects that pervade a social group, guiding its attitudes in relation to its fellow criatures and its environment. This way, the relation culture-space presupposes the existence of a symbology responsible for its identification, through the materiality of the cultural codes. In this sense, this paper proposes some considerations pertinent to the cultural environment, having as central focus the analysis of the representative aspects of the culture. Under a “geographical look”, the symbology responsible for the culture materialization and identification in space was privileged. For that, we started from the conception of culture for Geography, with considerations pertinent to this thematic in the present time, mainly, as to its use in the academic environment and in common sense. In this way, we approached, mainly, the cultural codes and the cultural identities construction, focusing the main factors thatr act in these two processes inherent to a specific cultural group. In the last stage, a culture-code-identity relation was made, in which it is the base of culture representation. Key words: Culture. Cultural Codes. Cultural Identity. Symbology.