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

Ute Dieckmann

 
9783837652413: Mapping the Unmappable?: Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa (Social and Cultural Geography)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3837652416 ISBN 13: 9783837652413
Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2021

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\x27s 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.

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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.

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Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3837652416
ISBN 13 
9783837652413
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
346