Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use [Hardcover]

G. Malcolm Lewis (Editor)

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Hardcover: 338 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (Sep 15 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226476944
ISBN-13: 978-0226476940
Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 2.2 x 0.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #564,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Ever since a Native American prepared a paper "charte" of the lower Colorado River for the Spaniard Hernando de Alarcón in 1540, Native Americans have been making maps in the course of encounters with whites. This book charts the history of these cartographic encounters, examining native maps and mapmaking from the pre- and post-contact periods.

G. Malcolm Lewis provides accessible and detailed overviews of the history of native North American maps, mapmaking, and scholarly interest in these topics. Other contributions include a study of colonial Aztec cartography that highlights the connections among maps, space, and history; an account of the importance of native maps as archaeological evidence; and an interpretation of an early-contact-period hide painting of an actual encounter involving whites and two groups of warring natives.

Although few original native maps have survived, contemporary copies and accounts of mapmaking form a rich resource for anyone interested in the history of Native American encounters or the history of cartography and geography.

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First Sentence
Like every chapter in this book, this one is a report of a recent encounter between an author (the subject) and one or more aspects of mapmaking and map use by native North Americans (the object or objects) in the course of a historically extended encounter with non-natives. Read the first page

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