Mapping the Unmappable?

Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5241-3
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 346 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 537 g

Reihe: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dieckmann, Ute

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Über Autor(innen)

Ute Dieckmann (PhD) is an anthropologist at the University of Cologne 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.