Maps and Mapping II

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 ]
    1. USGS topographical map, [~6.1]
    2. Marshall Island stick-map, [4.3]
    3. land claim map of Non Chi Ning Ga [Nacenenga], 1837 [4.7]
    4. Western interpretation of Non Chi Ning Ga's map [4.8]
    5. Guaman Poma (Hawk Puma), Incan mapmaker
    6. Guaman Poma 's map [2.6]
    7. early Western map of Hudson Bay [4.10]
    8. Wetalock's (Inuit) knowledge converted to pencil drawing, 1895 [4.9]
    9. post-expedition map of Hudson Bay, ~1916 [4.11]
    10. Inuit coastal charts, [4.4]
    11. detail of portolan chart [~2.5]
    12. Peutinger Table, 100 CE [cover] [ Nationalbibliothek, Vienna ]
      detail of a 1598 copy of the Peutinger Table
    13. London-to-Dover route map, John Ogilby, c.1600 [~7.5] [Univ. of Madison Library, Dept. of Special Collections ]
    14. Red Sky's map of the migration of the Ojibwe [4.5]
    15. contemporary Western interpretation of section of Red Sky's map
      full map comparison [4.6]
    16. crocodile image from Yolngu (aboriginal Australian) [5.2]
    17. Yolngu dugong image, [5.4]
    18. Australian aborigine nomad's "map" [9.3a]
    19. Western map to interpret nomad's version, [9.3b]


    20. Bullard's map as evidence for/argument for continental drift, 1960s [8.1]
    21. detail of John Snow's spot map of cholera in London, 1848
      full map
    22. Petermann's map of cholera outbreaks, reconstruction of 1852 original [8.2]
    23. Kettlewell's map of distribution of peppered moths, 1959
    24. London underground [2.8]
    25. Marey's train schedule [7.3]
    26. The Bellman's ocean chart, The Hunting of the Snark [1.3]


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