Mapping the Unmappable?
Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa
1st Edition
Published on 16. April 2021
346 pages
978-3-8394-5241-7 (ISBN)
Description
How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the relations of Africa's indigenous peoples with other human and non-human actors within their environments. These relations transcend Western dichotomies such as culture-nature, human-animal, natural-supernatural. The volume brings two strands of research - cartography and »relational« anthropology - into a closer dialogue. It provides case studies in Africa as well as lessons to be learned from other continents (e.g. North America, Asia and Australia). The contributors create a deepened understanding of indigenous ontologies for a further decolonization of maps, and thus advance current debates in the social sciences.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
65
25 s/w Abbildungen, 40 farbige Abbildungen
Klebebindung, 10 SW-Abbildungen, 40 Farbabbildungen
File size
16,09 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8394-5241-7 (9783839452417)
DOI
10.14361/9783839452417
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04/2021
1st Edition
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Person
Ute Dieckmann (PhD) is an anthropologist with more than two decades of research experience (ethnographic, archival, oral history and livelihoods enquiry) in Namibia. She worked both in academia and for Namibian and international non-governmental organisations.
