Cultural Politics and the Racial Cartographics of Human Origins
Abstract
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.
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The discovery of greater human diversity seemed to defy the tripartite racial taxonomy of Shemites, Hamites, and Japhites deduced from the Mosaic record.
“The discovery of greater and greater human diversity seemed to defy the tripartite racial taxonomy of Shemites, Hamites, and Japhites deduced from the Mosaic record (Kidd 2006;Livingstone 2010).”
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- Authors
- Livingstone, D. N.
- Affiliations
- Queen's University Belfast (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Livingstone, David N
- ORCID
- Livingstone, David N
- Venue
- Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-04
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 204-221
- ISSN
- 0020-2754 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-5661
- OpenAlex
- W1995485839
- Cited by
- 53
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 1.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (publishedVersion)
- Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- American Geographical Society
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Race, Genetics, and Society
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Historical Geography and Cartography
- Keywords
- human origins, race, cartography, racial power, cultural politics, maps, equality, ancestry, history of cartography
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