| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 5 Dec 2019 |
| Event | Mapping the Unmappable: African Hunter-Gatherer Relations with Their Environment and Cartography - University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany Duration: 5 Dec 2019 → 6 Dec 2019 https://transition.uni-koeln.de/past-events/past-events/events-sorted-by-year/past-events-2019/mapping-the-unmappable-african-hunter-gatherer-relations-with-their-environment-and-cartography |
Workshop
| Workshop | Mapping the Unmappable |
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| Country/Territory | Germany |
| City | Cologne |
| Period | 5/12/19 → 6/12/19 |
| Other | The workshop explored if and how cartography can be used as a tool to mediate African hunter-gatherer relations with their environment (their being-in-the-world). How can maps integrate relational ontologies or animism in the African context, i.e. the specific ways in which African hunter-gatherers, hunter-pastoralists and hunter-horticulturalists figure their world and their relations to non-human beings? Characteristics of relational ontologies and animism in Africa include, above all, the attribution of personhood or agency to non-humans and the ontological instability that emerges when, for instance, humans can turn into animals and back again. |
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Keywords
- canvases
- legal maps
- native title claims