Da praia a parque: o ressignificado das paisagens da Ponta Negra - Manaus/AM

Abstract

Ponta Negra is a place that’s part of manauaras’ life story. This locale has always attracted looks from many people, not only from city population, who consider this tourist place very important for their own lives, but also from the visitors. This research was structured to understand the meaning of this place for its visitors after several transformations. As people were giving their opinion about all remake produced at Ponta Negra, we consider such evidence related about territory category, mainly above all conflicting perspective experienced. It is necessary to emphasize our analysis about the visitors’ point of view concerning the landscape, place and territory categories of this beach. Thereby, those people build the place with the experience they have had. Studying the geographical categories means organize them into a conceptual group, because both of them can complete each other. We had just used, like an epistemological foundation, the Humanistic Cultural Geography as phenomenological basis. We changed the relationship people have established with the environment. This is built and rebuilt according to a symbolic dimension. Thus, due to the fact this is a qualitative research, we have used the semi-structured interview. These interviews were conducted by an informally way, because each interviewed could report about their experiences at Ponta Negra by their own way; as soon, some interviewed preferred the beach in the past way. However, the new Ponta Negra became a familiar place, although this fact did not exist before. We also have the mental maps, obtained through these speeches. These representations have been done by the visitors’ sense of perception about that place. They said about positive and negative look of the transformations at the Ponta Negra over the time.