Geografia e questões epistemológicas: a totalidade homem-meio e a superação do arquétipo N-H-E

Abstract

The site-situation model N-H-E structure is the standard of science that in the course of the 20th century is consolidated as a geographic discourse all over the world. A form of accommodation designed to prevent or minimize the fragmentary spraying that it contains within itself, this model is based, however, on a kind of archetype that comes from the original foundations of Geography (Moreira, 2014, p. 57). It is known that Geography was born to serve governments and it seems that it has remained so until the present day, since its contents very little lead to the transformation of students with regard to their understandings about what is passed on in the classroom. This structural form of fragmented and archetypal knowledge in Geography, titled by the author Ruy Moreira as N-H-E, has been materialized in Curricula and Textbooks for centuries, incisively contributing to the loss of the discipline's object of study over the centuries. Therefore, the research aims to outline the trajectory of the N-H-E archetype in geography from Strabo and Ptolemy to the present day, marked out by the author Ruy Moreira, as well as to present the perspectives of the archetype by the author, since the launch in the 1980s of the text: Geography, ecology, ideology: the “Middle-Man Totality” Today until the text of the year 2019 entitled: The tower, the palimpsest and expropriation: looking at Tricart, Ab'Saber and Quaini through the eyes of the middle-man totality. The methodology used was the bibliographical survey of the works of the author Ruy Moreira in the last forty years, regarding the archetype in his different reflections on the subject. The N-H-E archetype is considered a classificatory model that has been maintained under the model of fragmentation of the parts belonging to a whole, as well as the “shelving” of the elements of the triad for many centuries. From the evolution of geographic thought permeated by research and dialogues over time, the N-H-E in this work will be understood as a structural way of presenting itself that materializes mainly in some textbooks that are used in the country. As a form, its elements (Nature, Man and Economy) even if they meet a structure, are arranged by the compartmentalization and fragmentation that the classification has offered. After carrying out this dissertation, the results obtained were satisfactory, since through the author's dialogues and reflections, a category will be proposed as a structural axis of the elements of the triad, being able to minimize the impacts of the archetype currently seen as a classificatory model, and treated here as structural model for geography as a modern-day science.