Mythogeography
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mythogeography is a noun meaning The myths and/or folklore associated with a place.
Meaning
The myths and/or folklore associated with a place.
More Meanings
- The creation of an assemblage of interpretations about a place based on various symbols, ideas, stories, and patterns that it evokes.
Example Sentences
He specialises in creating performances related to walking, site-specificity, mythogeographies and countertourism.
The contrast between a single, monolithic meaning or interpretation and multiple perceptions of an event is similar to the distinction between mythogeography and the conventional presentation of 'heritage'.
To get at these different aspects of place and space, mythogeography draws on all kinds of 'low theory'; amateur and poetic assembling into manifestos of things I have learned (mostly from others) while out on the road.
The mythogeographies of Australian Aborigines, for example, recount the peregrinations of founding ancestors and civilizing heroes, who leave peoples, languages, and cultures in their wake (Berndt and Berndt 1970, 15-29).
Word Forms
- mythogeographies
- mytho-geography
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mythscape, mythography, mythos, mythopoetry, geomyth, mythology.
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