Maps and memes : redrawing culture, place, and identity in indigenous communities / Gwilym Lucas Eades.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eades, Gwilym Lucas, 1969- author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 76.

McGill-Queen's Native and northern series ; 76

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian cartography--Social aspects--Canada.

Indian cartography.

Names, Geographical--Social aspects--Canada.

Names, Geographical.

Geographical perception--Canada.

Geographical perception.

Human geography--Canada.

Human geography.

Memes--Canada.

Memes.

Names, Geographical--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Canada.

Genre:

Maps.

Physical Description:

xxi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Maps and cartography have long been used in the lands and resources offices of Canada's indigenous communities in support of land claims and traditional-use studies. Exploring alternative conceptualizations of maps and mapmaking, Maps and Memes theorizes the potentially creative and therapeutic uses of maps for indigenous healing from the legacies of residential schools and colonial dispossession. Gwilym Eades proposes that maps are vehicles for what he calls "place-memes" - units of cultural knowledge that are transmitted through time and across space. Focusing on Cree, Inuit, and northwest coast communities, the book explores intergenerational aspects of mapping, landscape art practice, and identity. Through decades of living in and working with indigenous communities, Eades has constructed an ethnographically rich account of mapping and spatial practices across Canada. His extended participation in northern life also informs this theoretically grounded account of journeying on the land for commemoration and community healing. Interweaving narrative accounts of journeys with academic applications for mapping the phenomena of indigenous suicide and suicide clusters, Maps and Memes lays the groundwork for understanding current struggles of indigenous youth to strengthen their identities and foster greater awareness of traditional territory and place. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Long Walk 3

2 Place-Memes: Indigeneity, Identity, and Performance 24

3 Cree Ethnogeography 52

4 Canada, Cartography, and Lidigenous Peoples 78

5 Counter-Mapping Colonization 96

6 The Evolution of Critical Cartographic Inscription 122

7 Commemorative Toponymies of Trauma 139

8 Meme Maps 164

9 Towards an Indigenous Geoweb 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-223) and index.

Other Format:

Eades, Gwilym Lucas, 1969-, author. Maps and memes.

ISBN:

9780773544482

0773544488

9780773544499

0773544496

OCLC:

879528869