Guide for Maps & Mapping

Essay/Journal Excursion:

  • Reflect on the maps from class and in Maps are Territories and address the questions in Exh. 6 along with: How does a map a represent? What makes a map faithful or "realistic"?


    Web Excursions

  • Marshall Island stick-maps
  • Plagiarism and intrigue in 1603!: the case of Jocobus Hondius
  • Old Maps (400-1300 CE)
  • Way Old Maps (6000 BCE - 400 CE)
  • Unusual Maps on the Web
  • Colonialism through Maps -- on the politics of maps and the Peters projection


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