Cultural Geography of India. Trends In The 21st Century

Essay from the year 2000 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Regional Geography, , language: English, abstract: The practice of cultural geography in India is already part of the broader field of human geography. Despite the multidisciplinary approaches of the Indian classics, there are rarely geographical attempts to self-reflect internal social and cultural phenomena, as concluded by Wescoat et al. (2003). They also point out that most of the remarkable work in this field has been presented by non-geographers and for other purposes, geographers have not given serious attention to the work of geographers. This has had the effect of weakening the practice of cultural geography in India. Habitat, economic, and traditional anthropological literature still predominate in geographical publications. These studies include descriptions of tribes and their lives, language differences, and East-West discourse in the representation of cultures and people, including new topics such as cinema., the role of the media, diaspora communities, religious landscapes, sacred geometry, symbolic architecture, and cultural astronomy. The study of pilgrimages and sacred landscapes has also attracted recent attention, which has a long tradition begun by Bhardwaj (1973). Recent additions to these topics include conservation and cultural heritage, always within the framework of an interdisciplinary approach.