Contribuição ao debate metodológico da geografia agrária

Abstract

The methodological question in Agrarian Geography is part of the general theoretical and conceptual problematic in Geography as a whole but also involves parameters specific to agriculture as an extensive activity determined by farmer decision-making as a point-focussed process rather than a spatial process. An important theorical contribution to Agrarian Geography is a more complete view of countryside-city relationships which goes beyond a simplistic mercantil interpretation and examines the mutual and reciprocal perceptions of rural and urban communities of one another. By so examining the different images and values employed by country and city people in their different perceptions of the world one can better comprehend what agrarian means in Geography.