Mappings / edited by Denis Cosgrove.

Contributor(s):

Cosgrove, Denis E

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Critical viewsPublication details: London : Reaktion Books, 2002, c1999.Description: viii, 311 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 24 cmContent type:

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ISBN:

1861890214

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DDC classification:

526.3209

Summary: "Mappings explores what mapping meant in the past and how its meanings have altered. It addresses some of the following provocative questions: How have maps and mapping served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds? How has the practice of mapping shaped modern seeing and knowing? In what ways do changes in our experience of the world alter the meanings and practice of mapping, and vice versa? Among the topics that the authors investigate are mappings of terrestrial space on a large scale; mapping and localism, or the 'chorographic' scale' personal mappings on and of the human body; and cosmographic or imaginative mappings beyond the scale of direct earthly experience. In their diverse expressions, maps and the representational processes of mapping have constructed the world's spaces since the early Renaissance. The map's spatial fixity - its capacity to frame, control and communicate information by combining image and text - and cartography's increasing claims to scientific authority make mapping at once an instrument and a metaphor for a rational understanding of our planet."--

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	526.3209 MAP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000007687		Vidali, Maria

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Mappings explores what mapping meant in the past and how its meanings have altered. It addresses some of the following provocative questions: How have maps and mapping served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds? How has the practice of mapping shaped modern seeing and knowing? In what ways do changes in our experience of the world alter the meanings and practice of mapping, and vice versa?
Among the topics that the authors investigate are mappings of terrestrial space on a large scale; mapping and localism, or the 'chorographic' scale' personal mappings on and of the human body; and cosmographic or imaginative mappings beyond the scale of direct earthly experience.
In their diverse expressions, maps and the representational processes of mapping have constructed the world's spaces since the early Renaissance. The map's spatial fixity - its capacity to frame, control and communicate information by combining image and text - and cartography's increasing claims to scientific authority make mapping at once an instrument and a metaphor for a rational understanding of our planet."--