Mapping the Unmappable?: Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa (Social and Cultural Geography)

Dieckmann, Ute

ISBN 10: 3837652416 / ISBN 13: 9783837652413

Editore: transcript publishing, 2021

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Titolo: Mapping the Unmappable?: Cartographic ...

Casa editrice: transcript publishing

Data di pubblicazione: 2021

Legatura: Brossura

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Riassunto:

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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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.