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

ISBN 10: 3837652416 / ISBN 13: 9783837652413

Published by transcript publishing, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mapping the Unmappable?: Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa (Social and Cultural Geography)
• Publisher: transcript publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837652416
• ISBN 13: 9783837652413
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.