Mapping the Unmappable? Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa

• Other Authors: Dieckmann, Ute (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021
• Series: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie 39
• Subjects: Social impact of environmental issues; Human geography; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Africa; Anthropology; Critical Cartography; Relational Ontologies; Hunter-gatherers; Indigenous Peoples; Culture; Nature; Space; Human Ecology; Cultural Geography; Cultural Anthropology; Geography
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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.