RESUMEN: Localized cultural phenomena, with culture being taken here in the anthropological sense, do not, a priori, indicate any other relationship than that of presence or absence. This one and that one must still be interpreted in order to know if, indeed, the place and its characteristics maintain relationships with the phenomenon considered as it is present or as it is absent. Can a geography of cultural phenomena be anything other than a representative visualization of the distribution of languages, religions, arts, literatures, or other phenomena such as those related to games, food, or whatever else? The question is not superfluous because it involves the credibility and legitimacy of an entire discipline. RESUMO: Les phénomènes culturels localisés, la culture étant prise, ici, au sens anthropologique, n'indiquent, a priori, aucune autre relation que celle d'une présence ou d'une absence. Celle-ci et celle-là doivent encore être interprétées de manière à savoir si, effectivement, le lieu et ses caractéristiques entretiennent des relations avec le phénomène considéré en tant qu'il est présent ou qu'il est absent. Une géographie des phénomènes culturels peut-elle être autre chose qu'une visualisation représentative de la distribution des langues, des religions, des arts, des littératures ou encore d'autres phénomènes tels que ceux relevant des jeux, de l'alimentation ou que sais-je encore? La question n'est pas superflue car elle engage la cré dibilité et la légitimité de toute une discipline. ABSTRACT: Localized cultural phenomena, with culture being taken here in the anthropological sense, do not, a priori, indicate any other relationship than that of presence or absence. This one and that one must still be interpreted in order to know if, indeed, the place and its characteristics maintain relationships with the phenomenon considered as it is present or as it is absent. Can a geography of cultural phenomena be anything other than a representative visualization of the distribution of languages, religions, arts, literatures, or other phenomena such as those related to games, food, or whatever else? The question is not superfluous because it involves the credibility and legitimacy of an entire discipline.