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TOSCANA APARICIO, Alejandra. The incorporation and spatial representations of the New World in the Old World. Invest. Geog [online]. 2006, n.59, pp.113-122. ISSN 2448-7279.

The objective of this paper is to propose an approximation to the study of the landscape, considering it as a whole of natural and social elements susceptible of being symbolically represented. Three diferet ways of the relationship physical space-culture are analized, they fluctuate between "engagement" and "distancing" and produce diferent ways of spatial representation, which order the spatial experience and produce identities. The New World's discovery and its representations in the Old World are used as examples.

Palavras-chave : Landscape; symbolic representatations; physical space-culture relationships; Old World; New World.