How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable?
explores the potential of cartography to communicate the relations of Africa's indigenous
peoples with other human and non-human actors within their environments. These relations
transcend Western dichotomies such as culture-nature human-animal natural-supernatural. The
volume brings two strands of research - cartography and »relational« anthropology - into a
closer dialogue. It provides case studies in Africa as well as lessons to be learned from other
continents (e.g. North America Asia and Australia). The contributors create a deepened
understanding of indigenous ontologies for a further decolonization of maps and thus advance
current debates in the social sciences.
