Comprises, in a broad sense, the phenomenon of representation as the practices and formations of ideas and theories. There are a wide variety of approaches and perspectives, including studies of material culture and art history (which are sub-areas); cultural dynamics (such as approaches that emphasize cultural circulation processes, acculturation, transculturation and syncretism); and more interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies, which mainly explore the relationship between history and literature, on the one hand, and history and anthropology on the other. This also includes the study of the theory and history of philosophy, as well as the history of intellectual culture and ideas.
