“Sand Culture”: Urban Transformations, Memory and Imagination in the Neighborhood of Itapuã
Culture; Memory; Urban landscape; Restinga and Multimodality.
The native theories and practices discussed here are the result of living with fishermen, beach workers and inhabitants of APA - Lagoas and Dunas do Abaeté in the neighborhood of Itapuã (Salvador-BA). I use the term “sand culture” as a way of covering and analyzing a “way of being” that involves not only humans, but a whole biological and cultural diversity of the restinga ecosystem, which are mutually dependent. The ethnography singles out and connects all these urban experiences in an area of restinga, mobilizing memory and imagination.