GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Smart Guy, Territorial Entity, Mongkut
8 Jul 2016
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Mapping and nation-making in three parts: mapping conventions, territorial sovereignty and mapping, illustration: mapping three contending histories of siam/thailand. Convention: commonly accepted way of doing something. What is disconcerning about this map: we see the arctic at the top. Based in buddhist cosmology: the three worlds (triphum) The world is divided into levels, the three main levels. Cosmology means our sense of what the world is like . (map) Three world"s map excerpt dated in 1776. Small excerpt, a map that goes on for 30-40 different leads. What people belonged to what lord. (map) (map) Routes that the army could take to take down the rebellious lords. Consistency of orientation, the maps are very clear (in the textbook). Scale consistency (the scale is the same throughout the map) These older maps, people don"t really worry about the scale. Modern maps are located in global grid. (latitude and longitude. At least on land, we tend to see a number of characteristics.
