Maps Are Territories: Science Is an Atlas

by David Turnbull and Yolgnu Community at Yirrkala

"The map is not the territory" is a cartographic truism. It means that unless the map is drawn on a mile-to-mile scale and has the same physical characteristics as the territory itself, it cannot be perfectly accurate. But as David Turnbull demonstrates, the map is a metaphor not only for the territory it represents but for the culture that created it. As such, it takes on the meaning of the territory and its importance in that culture.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226817059
• ISBN13: 9780226817057
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.5" x 8.8"