Paisagem cultural dos jardins domesticos com plantas medicinais e aromáticas: Grande Florianópolis

Abstract

The study seeks to understand the interaction between society and nature, represented by the cultural landscape of home gardens with medicinal and aromatic plants. The preservation of the popular knowlegde about the nature, cultivation, the beliefs and the uses of the medicianal and aromatic plants, studied focusing on the cultural lanscape which can evoke the past, valorize the local memory as a way to maintaining a social identity alive. The analysis of the cultural landscape, a spatial category that reveal ways of living and conceiving life, is a new perspective, which is based on the interactions between the natural and cultural aspects, material and immaterial. The study has made filmed interviews, for the elaboration of a video that illustrates the cultural practice of home gardens, focusing on the relationship between people and their plants, plants with their housing, cultivation with his community – a spiral climb of the body to City.