The space of culture in Minas Gerais: territorial clusters, socioeconomics development and regional concentration between 1920 and 2010

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the temporal evolution of cultural clusters in Minas Gerais. To this end, the cluster method was applied to the data from the 1920 State Yearbook, the Profile of Municipalities in 2006 and the Demographic Census in 2010, using variables related to socioeconomic development (literate population and home access to sewage) and culture (number of movie and theaters), taking the municipality by unit of analysis. As in 1920 the state of Minas Gerais had 178 municipalities and 853 in 2010, the geographic distribution of 2010 was made compatible with that of 1920. The application of the method generated four clusters in each year, which showed almost through a century an association between indicators of opportunities for access to cultural consumption to higher percentages of the literate population and the highest rates of households with access to the sewerage.

Keywords
culture; development; clusters; Minas Gerais