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Subject: RE: lost map of africa
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:34:32 +0000
From: Weessies, Kathleen <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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This sounds familiar. But I looked through my Africa drawers and
nothing I have seems a likely match. The closest was a 1959 map of
tribal boundaries. Maybe I saw something similar in a book or a map
that supplemented a journal article.
Do you recollect the approximate century of publication? I don't think
this would be an 18th century production. This kind of speculative
cartography sounds more like a 20th century white-guilt academic exercise.
I ran this by one of our Africana librarians with no luck, but have a
message out to our other one. I'll report back if I learn anything helpful.
In the meantime, here is an excerpt from "Tribal map of Africa" by
George Murdock which supplemented his book /Africa: Its peoples and
their cultural history/.
_http://staff.lib.msu.edu/weessie2/images/africa-tribes.jpg_
This is obviously not the one you are thinking of because it isn't in color.
Kathleen Weessies
Geosciences Librarian
Head, Map Library
Coordinator, Collaborative Technology Labs
Michigan State University Main Library
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Subject: Re: lost map of africa
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Subject: Re: lost map of africa
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:46:04 -0400
From: Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]
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I suspect you do not have enough detail to allow identification. The
sort of coloring you describe (whether full or outline) were certainly
seen in any number of maps from the mid to late 17th century and onward.
See Betz's _The Mapping of Africa_ for numerous images. Another
example--unless I've misunderstood your description--would be this later
(ca. 1737) map by Haas and published the Homann family:
http://catalog.afriterra.org/viewMap.cmd?number=594 .
Joel Kovarsky
On 8/30/2012 12:24 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society
Library, UW Milwaukee wrote:
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> Subject: lost map of africa
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:50:21 +0000
> From: Rick Grapes <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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>
> To all the map lovers out there,
>
> Years ago, as I was cataloging our map collection, converting the card
> catalog into our online version, a patron wanted to check out a map
> that had been stamped Do Not Circulate. I reluctantly OK'd the
> checkout, and then this patron promptly moved to Asia and we never saw the map again.
> As I continued to catalog, matching cards with maps, I came across
> the card for this missing map, but the map was never cataloged online,
> and the card has since gone missing also.
>
> This was a map of Africa, don't recall the exact title, showing the
> possible political boundaries as if European Colonialism had never
> happened. It extrapolated the boundaries using geographical features,
> language and tribal groupings as a guide. It was color, and the
> political divisions were nothing like what we see today.
>
> Does anyone out there know of such a map, or maybe has seen a map that
> would fit such a description? This isn't something that's keeping me
> up at night, but it pops into my mind now and then. If only ...! Any
> suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Rick Grapes
> BYU Map Collection
>
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