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"Ever since a Native American prepared a paper ""charte"" of the lower Colorado River for the Spaniard Hernando de Alarcon in 1540, Native Americans have been making maps in the course of encounters with whites. This text charts the history of the cartographic encounters, examining native maps and mapmaking from the pre- and post-contact periods. G. Malcom Lewis here provides a detailed overview of the history of native North American maps, mapmaking, and scholarly interest in these topics. Other contributions include: a study of colonial Aztec cartography that highlights the connections among maps, space, and history; an account of the importance of native maps as archaeological evidence; and an interpretation of an early-contact-period hide painting of an actual encounter involving whites and two groups of warring natives."

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Author:   G.Malcolm Lewis
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Edition:   2nd ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 22.00cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   1.110kg
ISBN:  

9780226476940

ISBN 10:   0226476944
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   15 September 1998
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Series Editor's Note by James Akerman Editor's Preface by G. Malcolm Lewis Introduction by G. Malcolm Lewis Ch. 1: Frontier Encounters in the Field: 1511-1925 G. Malcolm Lewis Ch. 2: Encounters in Government Bureaus, Archives, Museums, and Libraries, 1782-1911 G. Malcolm Lewis Ch. 3: Hiatus Leading to a Renewed Encounter G. Malcolm Lewis Ch. 4: Recent and Current Encounters G. Malcolm Lewis Ch. 5: Maps of Territory, History, and Community in Aztec Mexico Elizabeth Hill Boone Ch. 6: Inland Journeys, Native Maps Barbara Belyea Ch. 7: Native Mapping in Southern New England Indian Deeds Margaret Wickens Pearce Ch. 8: Eighteenth-Century Arkansas Illustrated: A Map within an Indian Painting? Morris S. Arnold Ch. 9: Indian Maps of the Colonial Southeast: Archaeological Implications and Prospects Gregory A. Waselkov Ch. 10: Debriefing Explorers Amerindian Information in the Delisles' Mapping of the Southeast Patricia Galloway Ch. 11: Orientations from Their Side: Dimensions of Native American Cartographic Discourse Peter Nabokov Ch. 12: Future Encounters in New Contexts G. Malcolm Lewis About the Contributors Index

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