Outline
Review of Maps I
Maps Using Different Cultural Conventions
Interpreting maps from different cultures (times and places) often requires a shift in perspective.
Maps and theories.
VISUALS - - - [ corresponding figures in Turnbull marked in brakcets ]
- USGS topographical map, [~6.1]
- Marshall Island stick-map, [4.3]
- land claim map of Non Chi Ning Ga [Nacenenga], 1837 [4.7]
- Western interpretation of Non Chi Ning Ga's map [4.8]
- Guaman Poma (Hawk Puma), Incan mapmaker
- Guaman Poma 's map [2.6]
- early Western map of Hudson Bay [4.10]
- Wetalock's (Inuit) knowledge converted to pencil drawing, 1895 [4.9]
- post-expedition map of Hudson Bay, ~1916 [4.11]
- Inuit coastal charts, [4.4]
- detail of portolan chart [~2.5]
- Peutinger Table, 100 CE [cover] [ Nationalbibliothek, Vienna ]
detail of a 1598 copy of the Peutinger Table
- London-to-Dover route map, John Ogilby, c.1600 [~7.5] [Univ. of Madison Library, Dept. of Special Collections ]
- Red Sky's map of the migration of the Ojibwe [4.5]
- contemporary Western interpretation of section of Red Sky's map
full map comparison [4.6]
- crocodile image from Yolngu (aboriginal Australian) [5.2]
- Yolngu dugong image, [5.4]
- Australian aborigine nomad's "map" [9.3a]
- Western map to interpret nomad's version, [9.3b]
- Bullard's map as evidence for/argument for continental drift, 1960s [8.1]
- detail of John Snow's spot map of cholera in London, 1848
full map
- Petermann's map of cholera outbreaks, reconstruction of 1852 original [8.2]
- Kettlewell's map of distribution of peppered moths, 1959
- London underground [2.8]
- Marey's train schedule [7.3]
- The Bellman's ocean chart, The Hunting of the Snark [1.3]
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