mythogeography

Noun

mythogeography (countable and uncountable, plural mythogeographies)

1. The myths and/or folklore associated with a place.
   • These contemporaries, in effect, amount to all peoples of the world known at the time of our author, with the exception of the Indians and the Chinese, knowledge of whom was, curiously, largely confined to the lore of mythogeography and of fantastic ethnology.1982, ʻAzīz ʻAẓmah, Ibn Khaldūn, an Essay in Reinterpretation, →ISBN, page 9
   • The mythogeographies of Australian Aborigines, for example, recount the peregrinations of founding ancestors and civilizing heroes, who leave peoples, languages, and cultures in their wake (Berndt and Berndt 1970, 15-29).1987, Michael J. Sallnow, Pilgrims of the Andes, page 11
2. The creation of an assemblage of interpretations about a place based on various symbols, ideas, stories, and patterns that it evokes.
   • This paper considers the exploration of, and performance on, a single street in Exeter, UK, as guided by an idea of 'mythogeography' and a determination to address a place as a multiplicity of meanings, objects, accretions, rhythms and exceptions.2014, Kathleen Gallagher, Jonothan Neelands, Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts, →ISBN, page 115
   • To get at these different aspects of place and space, mythogeography draws on all kinds of 'low theory'; amateur and poetic assembling into manifestos of things I have learned (mostly from others) while out on the road.2014, Phil Smith, On Walking: A guide to going beyond wandering around looking at stuff, →ISBN