Mapping the Unmappable? : Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa / Ute Dieckmann

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 dichotomie...

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Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Social and cultural geography ; 39
Physical Description:1 online resource (343 pages) :; illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Cartographic explorations with indigenous peoples in Africa
  • Where is the map?
  • What were we mapping? From the Inuit Land Use and Occupancy Project to the Southern Kalahari
  • Haiǁom in Etosha: Cultural maps and being in-relations
  • Densities of meaning in west Namibian landscapes: genealogies, ancestral agencies, and healing
  • Mapping multiple in Maasailand: Ontological openings for knowing and managing nature otherwise
  • Mapping materiality – social relations with objects and landscapes
  • Canvases as legal maps in native title claims
  • Mapping meaning with comics – Enhancing Maps with visual art and narrative
  • What shall we map next? Expressing Indigenous geographies with cartographic language
  • About the authors