The Drum as Map: Western Knowledge Systems and Northern Indigenous Map Making
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jouko Keski-Säntti
Ulla Lehtonen
Pauli Sivonen
Ville Vuolanto
Imago Mundi, vol. 55, 2003, pp. 120-125
Description
Discusses differences between Western and Indigenous understandings of what maps are, how they are made, how they look and what they do using two examples: one a drawing of north-eastern Siberia by a Chukchi man, the other by Sami of Lapland using marks on a drum in conjunction with Shamanistic performances as a means of mapping physical, spiritual and temporal elements of the environment.