Fonti bibliografiche per la lettura di un territorio

Abstract

Bibliographic sources for the understanding of a territory

Among the principal problems regarding anthropological research, there is that of sources. However, paradoxically, this can be resolved without excluding any and, indeed, the problem is more how these sources, including those already published, are used so as to provide a diversified evaluation/interpretation. This essay offers considerations of a territory, Calabria, which are based on the testimony of, mainly, travellers and narrators of different epochs. These have been selected in such a way as to include the landscape, although not in a naturalistic sense which would inevitably lead to exclusion due to distinctions between different academic disciplines. The work concludes by looking at the subject of maps, obligatory in such an argument, and who produced and produces them. This is done while taking it for granted that territorial qualities cannot be recorded on a map because they are innumerable and infinite.