Talk:Cultural mapping

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Notes compiled for proposed expansion

  • [http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/14507IIED.pdf JON CORBETT, GIACOMO RAMBALDI, PETER KYEM, DAN WEINER, RACHEL OLSON, JULIUS MUCHEMI, MIKE McCALL and ROBERT CHAMBERS (2006) Overview: Mapping for Change – the emergence of a new practice]

:: A convergence of participatory action research and geographic information technologies to represent peoples spatial knowledge, producing 2 and three dimensional maps to assist with descion making, assist with communiciation, assist with advocacy, and essentially assist empower local peoples to better determine own futures

:: Remainder of the proceedings/ book gives tools based plus issues based case studies of the use of participatory gis opr cultural mapping from across the world, including Indonesia Canada, African countries and more .. noting particularly some of the practical suggestions and ethics of this kind of research process

  • [http://www-as.phy.ohiou.edu/Departments/Geography/bcvs/pubs/pearce_pub_01.pdf Pearce & Louis (2008) Mapping Indigenous Depths of Place]

:: Asserts the emergence of indigenous succussful use of geographic information systems plus global positioning systems to communicate cultural knowledge and establish cultural soveriegnity over landscapes and resources, and proceeds to use a Hawaiian case study to explore some of the translation dilemmas of translating indigenous knowledges into positivist western cartographic knowledhge .. as well as explooring potential of more flexible less positivist cartography.

  • [http://noema.org.uk/downloads/Culture%20and%20Place%20Branding.pdf Franco Bianchini and Lia Ghilardi (2007) Thinking Culturally about Place]

::Article advocating cultural mapping as a useful tool, and even a precondition of cultural sensistive place branding and marketing by increasing awarenss of places' distinctive cultural resources (and retaining integrity of those resources, once understand their nature etc)

  • [http://www.international.icomos.org/madrid2002/actas/180.pdf Naomi Okawa (2005) HISTORIC CONSERVATION NOW NEEDS RE-EXAMINATION OF ITS BASIC CONCEPTS]

::brief mention of the progress of heritage conservation from the Venice Charter through to Nara charter on authenticity, and the tension between conservation and public values .. making mention of paper by Young from Australia advocating cultural mapping as important tool for documenting and measuring how public values their heritage.

  • [http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17103&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html UNESCO Culture: Indigenous Mapping of Indigneous Cultural Resources]

::contains a number of trial projects or case studies in cultural mapping

  • [http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/culture/Cultural_Mapping/Resources/Giving_New_Voice_to_Endangered_Cultures.pdf Nigel Crawhall (2003) GIVING NEW VOICE TO ENDANGERED CULTURES ]

::This articile significantly matches the UNESCO quoted undetrstanding of culytural mapping as a key tool for preserving cultural diversity both by doucmenting endangered cultural heritage (tangible and intangible) but as an advocacy tool .. drawing on examples incluing a Kalahari case study, workin gin Australia etc

  • [http://www.ibcperu.org/doc/isis/11953.pdf Peter Poole (2003) Cultural Mapping and Indigenous People: A Report to UNESCO]
  • [http://www.2010legaciesnow.com/fileadmin/user_upload/ExploreArts/Toolkits/CultureMapping.pdf Creative City Network's Cultural Mapping Too;lit]

Bruceanthro (talk) 07:42, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Chronological compilation

: 1883-1884 : Franz Boas promoted the use of sketch maps as an important part of anthropological fieldwork.

: 1939 : Alfred L. Kroeber developed the 'culture-area' concept and mapped indigenous groups according to their habitats.

: 1955 : anthropologist, J Stewart, more specifically mapped human populations to ecological niches

:1970's: Canada and Alaska - from this decade, from Canada and Alaska, there is a steady flow of studies, atalas' and guidebooks documenting mapping being done by and for indigenous peoples to achieve political goals, with catographic methods taken from and developed within geography.

: 1980: one of the most detailed cultural mapping exercises undertaken by an anthropologist, by Harold Conklin, working with the Ifugao of the Philippines

: 1984: Canada and Alaska: Ellana et al - 'subsistence mapping'

: 1987: Canada and Alaska: Schreober et al - 'subsistence use area mapping'

: 1994 : Canada and Alaska: Robinson et al 'Traditional land use and occupancy studies'

:1995: Asia, Africa & Latin America: : Gonz´alez et al. 1995 ethnocartography & Peluso counter-mapping & Venezeula - Arvelo Jim´enez & Conn self-demarcation

: 1996: Technical/computer: Vandergeest 'participatory 3-D modeling'

:1997: Technical/computer: Rubiano et al. 1997 'participatory 3-D modeling'

: 1997: Asia, Africa & Latin America: Chambers 'Participatory Mapping' & Philippines - Prill-Brett ancestral domain delimitation

: 1998: Canada and Alaska: Wienstien 'Traditional use studies'

: 1998: Technical/computer: Abbott et al 'participatory GIS' & Obermeyer 'public participation GIS' & Mather et al 'participatory photomapping ie (aerial photographs placed within a coordinate system)

: 2000 : Canada and Alaska - Tobias land use and occupancy studies

: 2000: Asia, Africa & Latin America: Bennagen & Royo 2000, Eghenter 2000: community mapping

: 2002: Asia, Africa & Latin America: : community-based mapping

: 2002: Technical/computer: Harris & Wiener 'Community integrated GIS' & McConchie & McKinnon 2002 'mobile interactive GIS'

: 2003: Canada and Alaska - Honda McNeil & Parsons: traditional knowledge and land use studies.

: 2003: Asia, Africa & Latin America: Mbile et al : Participatory land use mapping & participatory resource mapping'

References

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