Title Maps and memes : redrawing culture, place, and identity in Indigenous communities / Gwilym Lucas Eades

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

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Description 1 online resource Series McGill-Queen's Native and northern series ; 76 McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 76. Contents The long walk -- Place-memes: Indigeneity, identity, and performance -- Cree ethnogeography -- Canada, cartography, and Indigenous peoples -- Counter-mapping colonization -- The evolution of critical cartographic inscription -- Commemorative toponymies of trauma -- Meme maps -- Towards an Indigenous geoweb 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Indian cartography -- Social aspects -- Canada Names, Geographical -- Social aspects -- Canada Geographical perception -- Canada Human geography -- Canada Memes -- Canada Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Maps Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Ethnic identity HISTORY -- Canada -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. Indigenous peoples -- Ethnic identity Indigenous peoples Geographical perception Human geography Memes Names, Geographical -- Social aspects Indigenes Volk Ethnizität Anthropogeografie Kartografie Canada Genre/Form Maps Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773596771 0773596771 9780773596788 077359678X

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