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social science subjects > geography > geoinformatics > cartography > indigenous cartographies

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indigenous cartographies  

Definition

  • Indigenous cartographies are the mapping practices, past and present, produced or conceptualized by indigenous peoples and informed by the aesthetics and sign systems of the societies from which they derive. They are as diverse as the peoples who practice them. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Indigenous Cartographies]

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