Cartographic Encounters
Subtitle: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use (The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: September 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780226476940
Subjects: Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS); History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Maps, charts & atlases; Native Americans - History; Technology; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; North America; Cartography; Earth Sciences - Geography; Native American; Technology / Cartography; Indian cartography; Indians of North America; Inuit; Maps
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.