Comments on: Drawing Maps: Africa, ca. 1900 http://makingmaps.net/2008/10/03/drawing-maps-africa-ca-1900/ Resources and Ideas for Making Maps Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:31:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: timur http://makingmaps.net/2008/10/03/drawing-maps-africa-ca-1900/#comment-636 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:08:37 +0000 http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-636 Thanks for posting the story – I’m teaching a lab section of a geography class, and our first lab was drawing the globe. It was interesting (terrifying) to see what students could and could not draw.

Thinking about the world in terms of the body is interesting: Suggestions of man as the measure of all things; but then there are also discourses of imperialism and colonialism, questions of representation worked into seemingly innocuous drawing exercises.

All said, neat story.

]]> By: saivignesh http://makingmaps.net/2008/10/03/drawing-maps-africa-ca-1900/#comment-634 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:10:04 +0000 http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-634 very joking map.but it is very nice.a face looks like africa.

]]> By: Amusing Africa « mere pixels http://makingmaps.net/2008/10/03/drawing-maps-africa-ca-1900/#comment-630 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:14:10 +0000 http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-630 [...] a comment » circa 1900 and via making maps, does anyone else find it odd that they use a skull to [...]

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