Cartographic Encounters Research Articles

Review of Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West

Review of Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West

Mapping the Middle Ground: Exploratory Surveying as Distributed Cognition

Cartographic encounters, where geographical knowledge possessed by Native Americans was translated into forms understood (or misunderstood) by Euro-Americans, provided a significant contribution to the Euro-American exploration of North America. The concept of distributed cognition has been used to describe, for example, the piloting of ships and the operation of the Hubble Telescope. In this article, an exploratory survey of the Mississippi River headwaters conducted by David Thompson in 1798 is modeled as an effective instance of distributed cognition which translated internal representations of the region’s geography into external representations amenable to scientific mapping.

Mapscapes on the Urban Surface: Notes in the Form of a Photo Essay (Istanbul, 2010)

Historical maps displayed in power-related settings have often been considered from a critical, representational perspective and have been researched with regard to their predictive, ideological content. With the recent emergence of a post-representational approach to cartography, a call for contextual creative research on maps “in the wild” has emerged. The consideration of pervasive digital cartography has increased attention toward aspects such as context-specific design, display formats, and areas. Common people encounter these digital “cartifacts,” as well as more traditional ones, within the everyday urban environment (mainly as part of city wallscapes). Photography could be used to profitably research “mapscapes” as they are perceived, lived, and felt. The photographic selective reading of cartographic signs on urban surfaces, beyond being a means of playfully engaging the material spatialities of maps, could also serve as a tool for generating map theorization. A photo essay based on cartographic encounters in Istanbul in 2010 is provided here as an example of creative exchange between map studies and visual methodologies.

Korea: a cartographic history

The first general history of Korea as seen through maps, Korea: A Cartographic History provides a beautifully illustrated introduction to how Korea was and is represented cartographically. John Rennie Short, one of today's most prolific and well-respected geographers, encapsulates six hundred years of maps made by Koreans and non-Koreans alike. Short begins by examining the differing cartographic traditions prevalent in the early Joseon period in Korea and its temporal equivalent in early modern Europe. He then explores the cartographic encounters from roughly 1600 to 1900, highlighting the influence of the rest of the world on Korean cartography. In the final section, Short covers the period from Japanese colonial control of Korea to the present day and demonstrates how some of the tumultuous events of the past hundred years are recorded and contested in maps. He also explores recent cartographic controversies regarding the naming of the East Sea/Sea of Japan and claims of ownership of the island of Dokdo. A common theme running throughout Short's study is how the global flow of knowledge and ideas affects mapmaking, and Short reveals how Korean mapmakers throughout history have embodied, reflected, and even contested these foreign depictions of their homeland.

Theorizing Indigital Geographic Information Networks

In this article, I argue that in North America, 500 years of cartographic encounters and translations have transformed Indigenous map-making and geospatial technology processes into an amalgam of knowledge systems, science, and technology. To do this I first review the processes of map-making that have been shaped by continual cartographic encounters, exchanges, and translations between American Indians and Euro-Americans. Dichotomies between Indigenous–traditional and Western–scientific are prevalent within the literature, but the boundaries between geographic knowledge systems have always been fuzzy and crossable. This review includes some processes strongly shaped by Indigenous communities, such as ethnocartography and counter-mapping in Alaska and Canada, and GIS processes controlled more by government institutions in the lower 48 US states. Second, I introduce the tenets of a new model – indigital geographic information networks (iGIN) – to describe the heterogeneous processes of encounters, exchanges, and translations merging Indigenous, scientific, and digital technologies into inclusive forms of technoscience. Third, I demonstrate iGIN processes through exploratory research at the university level, using Kiowa-language narratives and network GIS to create a new “third” construct. Finally, following brief concluding remarks, I propose future research directions.

“Just a First Sketchy Makeshift”: German Travellers and Their Cartographic Encounters in Africa, 1850-1914

Abstract:The maps of Africa produced in Europe on the eve of colonial partition and in the early decades of colonial rule purported to represent in a scientific manner what European explorers had “discovered.” Yet in reality they derived to a significant extent – albeit indirectly – from the spatial knowledge of Africans whom these explorers encountered. Whilst we do not possess many sources produced by the Africans themselves, it is possible to read the European accounts as potential depositories of African spatial knowledge and to consider how this knowledge may have been filtered in the process of cartographic production. Taking the German travellers and the important work of August Petermann in Gotha (in the period 1854-1878) as an illustration, the article analyses the difficulties a European faced when attempting to grasp Africa in spatial terms, the motivations and importance of African “informants,” and the transformation of “cartographic encounters” into maps. It also examines how some Africans responded to the growing market for geographical knowledge.

Cartographic Encounters at the Bureau of Indian Affairs Geographic Information System Center of Calculation

The centering processes of geographic information system (GIS) development at the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was an extension of past cartographic encounters with American Indians through the central control of geospatial technologies, uneven development of geographic information resources, and extension of technically dependent clientele. Cartographic encounters included the historical exchanges of geographic information between indigenous people and non-Indians in North America. Scientists and technicians accumulated geographic information at the center of calculation where scientific maps, models, and simulations emerged. A study of GIS development at the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs will demonstrate some centering processes.

Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World. By John Rennie Short (London, Reaktion Books, 2009) 176 pp. $45.00

<i>Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World.</i> By John Rennie Short (London, Reaktion Books, 2009) 176 pp. $45.00

Cartographic encounters: indigenous peoples and the exploration of the New World

In this major re-interpretation of American history, John Rennie Short argues that until now, both writing about and popular understanding of, the exploration and mapping of the New World has largely ignored the pivotal role played by indigenous people. European mapping of the New World was the product of an exchange of information, a cartographic encounter' between newcomers and indigenous people. This encounter allowed Native Americans to parlay their deeper and wider knowledge of the land into a strong bargaining position, but in this very exchange lay the roots of the ultimate loss of their land. Based on extensive research, Cartographic Encounters will appeal to a general readership, specialists and students in the field of cartography, and those interested in the history of indigenous peoples. Both readable and considered, this new account of America's exploration will also force a radical change in how we view Western exploration and discovery in general.

Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous People and the Exploration of the New World (review)

Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous People and the Exploration of the New World (review)

Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 2nd through 4th October 1992; Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use

Book Review| October 01 2000 Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 2nd through 4th October 1992; Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use Edited by G. Malcolm Lewis. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xx+ 318 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, maps, index. $60.00 cloth.)Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone and Tom Cummins. (Washington, dc:Dumbarton Oaks, 1998. vii + 480 pp., introduction, illustrations, index.) Dana Leibsohn Dana Leibsohn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 802–806. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-802 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Dana Leibsohn; Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 2nd through 4th October 1992; Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use. Ethnohistory 1 October 2000; 47 (3-4): 802–806. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-802 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsEthnohistory Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. 2000 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

The Americas

Books reviewed: A Continent Defined: North American Exploration 2. Edited by John Logan Allen Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use. Edited by G. Malcolm Lewis A History of the United States. By Philip Jenkins The Degradation of American History. By David Harlan An Emotional History of the United States. Edited by Peter N. Stearns and Jan Lewis Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York. By Cathy Matson Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro‐Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718–1868. By Caryn Cossé Bell A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and its Peoples, 1724–1774. By Michael N. McConnell A Handbook of American Military History: From the Revolutionary War to the Present. Edited by Jerry K. Sweeney A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics. By Mark E. Kann Recollections of the Early Republic: Selected Autobiographies. By Joyce Appleby Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City in the Nineteenth Century. By Mary P. Ryan Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810–1899. By Samuel C. Hyde, Jr Party Ideologies in America, 1828–1996. By John Gerring Daniel Webster: The Man and his Times. By Robert V. Remini The Voyage of the Frolic: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade. By Thomas N. Layton Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. By Gary Collison Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South. By Douglas Ambrose Reluctant Witnesses: Children's Voices from the Civil War. By Emmy E. Werner The Confederate War. By Gary W. Gallagher Lee: The Soldier. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns. By Steven E. Woodworth Shook over Hell: Post‐traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War. By Eric T. Dean Jr ‘Right or Wrong, God Judge Me’: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth. Edited by John Rhodehamel and Louise Taper Cullen Montgomery Baker: Reconstruction Desperado. By Barry A. Crouch and Donaly E. Brice The Rise of the National Guard: The Evolution of the American Militia, 1865–1920. By Jerry Cooper Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell. By Joan Waugh Two Rooms: The Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood. By Robert Hamburger The Important Things of Life: Women, Work and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880–1929. By Dee Garceau The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1884–1928. By Priscilla Murolo Women and Warriors of the Plains: The Pioneer Photography of Julia E. Tuell. By Dan Aadland Theodore Roosevelt, American Politician: An Assessment. By David H. Burton The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I. By Edward M. Coffman Reel Patriotism: The Movies and World War I. By Leslie Midkiff DeBauche The USA and the World, 1917–45. By Peter Brett Keeping the Covenant: American Internationalists and the League of Nations, 1920–1939. By Warren F. Kuehl and Lynne K. Dunn Lindbergh. By A. Scott Berg Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political Decision‐making. By Barbara Rearden Farnham Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island. By Gregory J. W. Urwin Eternal Vigilance? 50 Years of the CIA. Edited by Rhodri Jeffreys‐Jones and Christopher Andrew Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino‐American Conflict, 1947–1958. By Thomas J. Christensen Sex among Allies: Military Prostitution in US–Korea Relations. By Katherine H. S. Moon Kennedy. By Hugh Brogan The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK. By John Hellmann Kennedy: The New Frontier Revisited. Edited by Mark J. White Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle. By Walt Crowley The Scar that Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War. By Keith Beattie Burning the Flag: The Great 1989–90 American Flag Desecration Controversy. By Robert Justin Goldstein ‘Your Fyre Shall Burn No More’: Iroquois Policy toward New France and its Native Allies to 1701. By José António Brandão Life and Religion in Louisbourg, 1713–1758. By A. J. B. Johnston Shock Army of the British Empire: The Canadian Corps in the Last 100 Days of the Great War. By Shane B. Schreiber La France et le Canada: d'une après‐guerre à l'autre (1918–1944). By Philippe Prévost The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America, 1492–1810. By John R. Fisher ‘Tiger in the Stars’: The Anatomy of Indian Achievement in British Guiana 1919–1929. By Clem Seecharan

Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use. G. Malcolm Lewis

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Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use

List of Illustrations Series Editor's Note by James Akerman Editor's Preface by G. Malcolm Lewis Introduction by G. Malcolm Lewis Ch. 1: Frontier Encounters in the Field: 1511-1925 G. Malcolm Lewis Ch. 2: Encounters in Government Bureaus, Archives, Museums, and Libraries, 1782-1911 G. Malcolm Lewis Ch. 3: Hiatus Leading to a Renewed Encounter G. Malcolm Lewis Ch. 4: Recent and Current Encounters G. Malcolm Lewis Ch. 5: Maps of Territory, History, and Community in Aztec Mexico Elizabeth Hill Boone Ch. 6: Inland Journeys, Native Maps Barbara Belyea Ch. 7: Native Mapping in Southern New England Indian Deeds Margaret Wickens Pearce Ch. 8: Eighteenth-Century Arkansas Illustrated: A Map within an Indian Painting? Morris S. Arnold Ch. 9: Indian Maps of the Colonial Southeast: Archaeological Implications and Prospects Gregory A. Waselkov Ch. 10: Debriefing Explorers Amerindian Information in the Delisles' Mapping of the Southeast Patricia Galloway Ch. 11: Orientations from Their Side: Dimensions of Native American Cartographic Discourse Peter Nabokov Ch. 12: Future Encounters in New Contexts G. Malcolm Lewis About the Contributors Index

A Waxen World: Early Modern Women and Geographical (Un)awareness

A Waxen World: Early Modern Women and Geographical (Un)awareness Mercedes Maroto Camino Whilst m y Phisitians by their lore are growne Cosmographers, and I their Mapp, who lie Flat on this bed, that by them may be showne That this is m y South-west discoverie Perfretumfebris, by these streights to die.1 Vincent Ward's movie Map of the Human Heart presents some issues which are part of the ongoing debate in cartographic studies. Though couched as a sentimental melodrama, the film manages to convey a critique of the politics of map-making centered around the motif to which thetitlealludes: the treasuring of a pectoral Xray as a love token by the story's main protagonist, an Inuit boy. John Donne, 'Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse', in Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. by John Hayward (London: Nonsuch, 196 pp. 320-21 (p. 320). 102 Mercedes Maroto Camino The most interesting cartographic scene occurs w h e n the Inuit, now a young man, opens the closet of a map-maker's studio to find a female mannequin covered with maps. 'Woman is a map' is the map-maker's answer; and, he adds, one needs to trace their coordinates , in order to m a k e sense of them. W o m a n is, in other words, both a living being and a landscape that needs the conquering power of a masculine eye/I to be rendered meaningful. This sententious statement brings h o m e the actuality, and perhaps the undesirability, of a rnasculinist representational tradition which often precedes or accompanies the violent appropriation of women. But it disregards, among other things, the fact that, as the epigraph I have chosen shows, m a n was also seen as a m a p during the early modern period: a micro-cosmic version of the universe composed of diverse quantities of the same four elements. Ward thus sacrifices on the altar of elliptic sophistication not only the significant differences of the mapping of the sexes but also the spatial representations w o m e n have made. What follows is an attempt to redress that absence by presenting some reasons for women's cartographic silence as well as foregrounding their role in depicting some early modern landscapes. The cartographic tradition that started to consolidate i t s e l f during the early modern period entailed the reification of a 2 s Although the term micro-cosmos is often attributed to Democritus (dnthropos mikros kdsmos) arguments have been put forward to trace concept to an old Iranian legend of the origin of the world. Most cultures deploy, however, some sort of analogy between the human body, the house, the social arrangement and the cosmic world. On t h i s topic, see Leonard Barkan, Nature's Work of Art: The Human Body Image of the World (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975). An early modern example, that of Samuel Purchas, Microcosmu or the Historie ofMan (1619), which is studied below. Early Modern Women and Geographical (Unjawareness 103 particular view of our spatial surroundings and has had serious consequences for the marginalization not only of feminine geographies but also of the geographies of other worlds. Not surprisingly, then, the development of feminist geography has been paralleled and even anticipated by the efforts to re-define what is a map, or even a landscape, coming from colonized and indigenous peoples. T w o recent cartographic exhibitions bear witness to this attempt: 'Cartographic Encounters; an Exhibition of Native American M a p s from Central Mexico to the Artie,' (Newberry Library, Chicago, 1993) and 'Putting the Land on the M a p : Art and Cartography in N e w Zealand since 1840' (New Zealand, 1989). The curators of both exhibits, Mark Warhus and Wystan Curnow, make significant claims for the need to image, and even listen to other The medieval tradition of moral cartography, exemplified by the T-O maps, also extends to the early modern period. E. P. Mayberry Senter offers a succint review of some seventeenth-century allegorical charts with the sole apparent aim of supporting a chauvinistic claim that they were...

Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use

Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use