Antecedentes para el estudio cultural del paisaje urbano en la Nueva España del siglo XVI
- Autores: Federico Fernández Christlieb
- Localización: Geotrópico, ISSN-e 1692-0791, Vol. 2, Nº. 1, 2004, págs. 10-20
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
A deeper understanding of former landscapes can be obtained if the study is conducted through the views of cultural geography. By this approach, geographical analysis is likely to be free of prejudice and a priori explanations concerning the use made by past societies of elements present in their territories. A bibliographic background is provided in the article to the student interested in adopting the cultural approach for landscape research in historical geography. The historical instance taken here as illustration, with its own bibliographic support, is the urban landscape that emerged as a result of the conquest of Mexico by Spanish conquistadores. An unpublished geography named New Spain was the historical outcome of the conquest. It is the objective of this paper to make known some research progress, which could serve as reference for similar cultural studies in other Latin American countries where history, as in Mexico, was shaped by two distinct cultural universes.
