Article ID: CBB153910744

Cartographic Ethnography: Missionary Maps of an Eighteenth-Century Spanish Imperial Frontier (2021)

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The maps of a Spanish imperial frontier in the Philippines made in the eighteenth-century by the missionary Alejandro Cacho reflect an ethnographic approach that simultaneously reified and undermined Spanish notions of conquest and civilization. While Cacho celebrated mission towns and denigrated unsubjugated settlements, several elements of his maps subverted that message by recognizing the presence of animist communities and the different mobilities taking place at the frontier. The apparent conflict of messages is explained by the context in which the maps were made.

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Authors & Contributors
Redondo, José María García
Ben-Bassat, Yuval
Sergio Mejía
Stephen Whiteman
Ben-Artzi, Yossi
Corbellini, Sabrina
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Imperialism
Spain, colonies
Geography
Missionaries and missions
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
16th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
20th century, early
Places
Spain
Portugal
Ottoman Empire
New Granada (Spanish colony)
Arabian peninsula
Polynesia
Institutions
London Missionary Society
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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