Traditional Navajo Maps and Wayfinding

Kelley, Klara B.; Francis, Harris

doi:10.17953/aicr.29.2.hnj6880303q25wh0

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“…Un ejemplo de lo anterior es el de los indígenas de Australia quienes poseen un sistema de senderos en forma de trazos de canciones o songlines (Chatwin, 1987) heredados de los antepasados y que en conjunto forman una "red de recorridos errático-simbólicos que atraviesan y describen el espacio como si se tratase de una guía cantada" (Careri, 2002: 48). En este caso, cada canto alude a una serie de referencias espaciales de senderos invisibles específi cos deambulados por los ancestros durante una época formativa (Dreamtime) y que constituyen un valioso 'mapa verbal' (Kelley & Francis, 2005;Ingold, 2007;Hirt, 2012). Otro ejemplo interesante de mencionar es el de los saami, en Finlandia, quienes asignan nombres a determinados tramos durante el recorrido o viaje por un río (Ingold, 2007).…”

Section: El Estudio De Las Vías De Comunicaciónunclassified

Los senderos pehuenches en Alto Biobío (Chile): articulación espacial, movilidad y territorialidad

Huiliñir-Curío

2015

Rev. geogr. Norte Gd.

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Este artículo explora el rol de los senderos en la articulación del territorio pehuenche del Alto Biobío en los Andes del Centro-Sur de Chile. Mediante un estudio comparativo de la red de senderos de las comunidades pehuenches de Cauñicú y El Barco, localizadas en el valle del río Queuco y el valle del río Biobío respectivamente, se reconoce la existencia de una geografía indígena, anclada en el "espacio vivido o de la experiencia" en torno a las vías de comunicación. El estudio se enmarca en la perspectiva teórica de la geografía cultural y utiliza una metodología cualitativa con un enfoque etnográfi co. Se concluye que los senderos pehuenches: a) contribuyen a la articulación del territorio al enlazar los lugares signifi cativos de cada comunidad, b) aseguran la apropiación simbólica del espacio, y c) permiten actualizar la memoria colectiva de las familias, mediante prácticas de movilidad cotidiana.

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Los senderos pehuenches en Alto Biobío (Chile): articulación espacial, movilidad y territorialidad

Huiliñir-Curío

2015

Rev. geogr. Norte Gd.

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“…Story cycles describe the travels and activities of the ancestors, the routes of which intersect but do not coincide with Navajo travel routes on the ground. As these story cycles cannot be shared outside the Navajo community, Kelley and Francis (2005) describe the way in which place name, story and travel route function together through the example of a single story, that of Traveling Rock.…”

Section: A Genre Of Indigenous Cartographymentioning

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“…One set of landmarks describes an east-west sequence, while a separate set of landmarks describes a west-east sequence. Kelley and Francis (2005) note that, if these crystals were in place, the spacing of landmarks and crystals approximates 1 or 2 days' travel by foot; without them, the spacing of landmarks approximates 1 day's travel by horse (Kelley and Francis, 2005, pp. 94, 99).…”

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The Last Piece Is You

Pearce

2014

The Cartographic Journal

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This article presents the cartographic outcome of a 3-year collaboration with Penobscot Nation Cultural & Historic Preservation to map the traditional place names of Penobscot territory in the state of Maine. After a consideration of the challenges of mapping Indigenous place names, I describe my cartographic contribution to the project, to transform the map design using the tools of narrativity and translation. Initial insights about Penobscot place names then led to wider insights regarding Indigenous place names and traditional cartography, through a comparison to similar practices in the place name traditions of other communities. I then explain how these insights influenced the design of the map itself.

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“…Within the maps the Maijuna included detailed geographic information about locations where they hunt, fish, and gather important botanical resources. If this information was placed in the hands of poachers, loggers, or even powerful biopharmaceutical companies, it could lead to additional exploitation of the Maijuna's lands and resources (Kelley and Francis ; Pearce and Louis ). Instead, the Maijuna's maps were selectively and strategically shared with particular nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and government actors.…”

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Subaltern Empowerment in the Geoweb: Tensions between Publicity and Privacy

Young

Gilmore

2013

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Geographers have argued that the emergence of the geospatial web, or geoweb, represents a radical shift away from the state's monopolization of geospatial technologies. Like the public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) movement before it, the geoweb research agenda has emphasized a desire for empowerment and participatory democracy. However, this research agenda has also inherited a conceptualization of power that emphasizes the linkages between empowerment and public visibility, and this paper argues that this inheritance opens potentially sensitive geoweb data to exploitation. Geographers therefore have an important role to play in emphasizing the need to explore ways of harnessing the power of the geoweb for marginalized communities while nonetheless maintaining those communities' privacy. This paper uses work with the Maijuna indigenous people of Peru as a case study to begin a discussion about how the political goals of disempowered people may be best obtained through both public and private uses of the geoweb.

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Traditional Navajo Maps and Wayfinding

Cited by 48 publications

References 5 publications

Los senderos pehuenches en Alto Biobío (Chile): articulación espacial, movilidad y territorialidad

Los senderos pehuenches en Alto Biobío (Chile): articulación espacial, movilidad y territorialidad

The Last Piece Is You

Subaltern Empowerment in the Geoweb: Tensions between Publicity and Privacy

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