Vernacular imaginary, forms of visual memory, elicitation and aesthetic community in an ethnographic research

Abstract

In these pages, I propose a visual reflection in which, by listening to the voices of the protagonists of an ethnographic research, we witness the evocation of images and visions that will allow us to enter into synergy with the vernacular imaginary that becomes a projection of the place of self and community.

The privileged object of the investigation was the cultural category of the depopulation, above all in the areas of investigation which, taking into account the variables that determine it, made it possible to reflect on the culturally constructed nature of the territory, space, place and movement also thanks to the tools of investigation and detection of experience such as ‘map-elicitation’, ‘photo-elicitation’, ‘place-elicitation’.