Anthropology Seminar | Maps that won’t sit still: Cartographic Conundrums in a West Papuan Village
This paper explores the politics of mapping among indigenous Marind communities in Merauke District, West Papua. Marind criticize government maps and their unnaturally ‘straight lines’ because they epitomize the totalizing control of the state over the landscape and its inhabitants. Some also disapprove of drone-mapping technology because, like the state, drones impose a top-down but …