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Counter-Cartographies, Indigenous (Counter-)Cartographies

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In his seminal work Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson mentions the map as one of the three institutions of power, along with the census and the museum, which deeply influenced the way the colonial state imagined its domination: “the nature of the human beings it ruled, the geography of its domain, and the legitimacy of its ancestry” (Anderson B., 2006: 167). As full-fledged instruments of colonizing strategies from the 18th century ...

Source: IdeAs

DOI: 10.4000/14v74

Authors: Agnès Trouillet, Baptiste Lavat

Institutions: Université Paris Nanterre, Centre de Recherches Anglophones, Université de Montpellier, Institut de Recherche Intersite Études Culturelles

Language: English

Topic: Indigenous Cultures and History

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4414890171

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