Cultural politics and the racial cartographics of human origins

David N Livingstone

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00377.x

Cultural politics and the racial cartographics of human origins

David N Livingstone

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Discussions about human origins, both scientific and pre-scientific, have frequently been freighted with the cultural politics of race relations and questions about human equality. In one way or another, maps have played a critical role in these enterprises by presenting in visual form narratives of human genesis and patterns of human ancestral lineages. In this paper I discuss how a sequence of cartographic representations of human beginnings have transacted racial power from the middle ages to the present day.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	204-221
Number of pages	18
Journal	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Volume	35
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00377.x
Publication status	Published - Apr 2010

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Earth-Surface Processes
Geography, Planning and Development

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