The final article of the issue presents Yannan Ding's discovery of a manuscript map of Cochinchina (in modern Vietnam), which drastically revises our understanding of when French missionary activity first began in the region.
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The second article is Luis A. Robles Macías's survey of the use of flags on nautical maps and portolan charts of the early modern Maghreb, showing how flags can be used to date, attribute, and assess the provenance of charts.
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The issue opens with Hayley Cotter's discussion of John Selden's cartographic contributions to the 'mare clausum' debate of the seventeenth century, and the role of metaphor in his thought on legal mapping.
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Issue 77.2 of Imago Mundi is out! It contains articles on Early Modern Legal Cartography; Portolan Charts of the Maghreb; French Missionary Cartography in Vietnam; a Forum on the map history's future; and a reflection on the ending of Imago Mundi's Chronicle.
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In “Elemental Cartographies: Restoring Kuleana Mapping at Kauaʻula, Lahaina, Maui,” Candace Fujikane discusses kuleana maps as evidence in land disputes and links these maps to a more elemental understanding of space.
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In “Drawing the Line: The Interplay of European and African Mapping Practices in the Carte du Haut-Niger au Golfe de Guinée (1:1,000,000),” Tom Bassett looks at the intertwined nature of European and African mapping practices in a French example from 1890.
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In “Living Maps: How Native North Americans Envisioned their World”, Eric Anderson and Carrie Cornelius outline spatial practices of Indigenous North Americans and offer a new interpretive model.
Open Access until the end of October!
In our editorial introduction (free to all to read!) we lay out our decolonial approach and why we won’t define “Indigenous” or “maps and mapping”
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Issue 77.1 of @imagomundi.bsky.social is out!
I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i.
#newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Luckasavitch’s essay, and the article by Eric Anderson and Carrie Cornelius, ‘Living Maps: How Native North Americans Envisioned their World’ are both free to download until the end of October. Don’t miss them!
08.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This first entry is from Christine Luckasavitch (Algonquin Anishinaabekwe and mixed settler ancestry) on her encounters with maps and thoughts on how maps can offer alternative visions when they are made by and with Indigenous Peoples, centring Indigenous knowledges, priorities, and spaces. [...]
08.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This issue also includes the first in a new occasional series, A Life in Maps, an open-format section which will highlight the diversity of ways in which people work with maps. [...]
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Issue 77.1 of Imago Mundi is now available! The journal’s first thematic issue, its articles and thesis abstract focus on the dynamic field of Indigenous maps and mapping. [...]
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