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Understanding the Limitations of Maps - Farnam Street
Maps are flawed but useful. To understand and respect the inherent limitations of maps we need to think about three things: The perspective, the author, and the territory.
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Maps have their physical limitations, hence the mapping of areas has been necessarily such as perhaps to justify the inference that areas can be abruptly denoted, and that the change from the culture of one area to that of another is a radical one.
It is not necessary that the culture-center be at the geographical center of an area. It may be at one end or the other, as well as in the middle. For it would seem that ethnic factors were more responsible for the establishment of these centers than geographical
Herskovits, Melville J. “The Cattle Complex in East Africa.” American Anthropologist 28, no. 1 (1926): 230–72. https://www.jstor.org/stable/660813.
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