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.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 346
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
15 April 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837652413
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction: Cartographic explorations with indigenous peoples in Africa 9
Where is the map? 47
What were we mapping? From the Inuit Land Use and Occupancy Project to the Southern Kalahari 69
Haiom in Etosha: Cultural maps and being in-relations 93
Densities of meaning in west Namibian landscapes: genealogies, ancestral agencies, and healing 139
Mapping multiple in Maasailand: Ontological openings for knowing and managing nature otherwise 193
Mapping materiality - social relations with objects and landscapes 223
Canvases as legal maps in native title claims 261
Mapping meaning with comics - Enhancing Maps with visual art and narrative 291
What shall we map next? Expressing Indigenous geographies with cartographic language 317
About the authors 341
