September 10: Location, Map, Territory
Discussions for this week will focus on the following items:
- The construction of the notion of place
- Theories of place
- Visual representation of space and place
Readings:
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Barthes, Roland. "From Work to Text"
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Hippocrates - "Air, Land and Waters"
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Casey, Edward S. "How to Get from Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time." In Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso Ed. Senses of Place. 13-52.
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Reitinger, Franz. "Discovering the Moral World." Mercator's World 4.4., July/August 1999. 24-31.
Supplementary readings:
- Hirsch, Eric. "Landscape:
Between Place and Space." in Eric Hirsch and Michael O'Hanlon.
The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1995.1-30.
- Sack, Robert David.
Human Territoriality: Its theory and history. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1986.
- Whitfield, Peter. New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. Chapter I. Exploration in the Ancient World. Chapter II. The Lure of the East 1250-1550 and Chapter III. The New World 1490-630. New York: Routledge, 1998. 1-89
Tabernacle world view from Cosmas Indicopleutes, from Christian Topography,
6th
Waldseemuller
1513 
Sino-Tibetan
world map, ca. 733 A.D. [12th century reproduction].
Mercator
1569 
Isidorean
mappamundi, 11th century 
Orbis
Terra Compendiosa,1585 
World
map,Henry of Mainz,1110 
Designatio
Orbis Christiani, 1607 
Macrobian
- XIIth Cent. 
Florida
et regiones vicinae. 1625 
Map
of Jerusalem 
Hondius
1633 
Beatus
world map, Osma copy, 1203 A.D. (Miller) 
Chinese
map 
Psalter
mappamundi, unknown, 1225-1250* 
Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Map 
Ebstorf
mappamundi,Gervase of Tilbury, (1234) 
Aerial
Photographs and Remote Sensing 
Gervase
of Tilbury, Ebstorf mappamundi, 1234 
Nueva
Espana 
Ebstorf
mappamundi, detail: the Garden of Eden (the East)(oriented with East at the top)
Acunacion
de monedas en Potosi 
Hereford
mappamundi, Richard de Bello of Haldingham, 1290 
Potosi,
cerro desde las nubes 
Macrobian
world map, 15th century in Petrus Alphonsus' Dialogus Contra Judeos. 
Africanos
en Potosi 
Macrobian
World Map, 1483 (facsimile)
Estrecho
de Magallanes, 1590 
Isidoro
de Sevilla, 1472 
1572,
Cusco, regni Peru in Novo Orbe Capvt., Antwerp, Braun 
201C
Macrobian world map, Johannes Eschuidus, 1489 (Nordenskiöld) 
T-O
map, circa 1500, Venice 
Climate/Zone
and T-O maps, Giacomo Foresti, 1503