Resolving the Polynymy of Place: or, how to create a gazetteer of colonized landscapes
This paper will explore the problem of creating a gazetteer of colonized landscapes, specifically those of the mid-Atlantic in the 18th century, in which the name of a place (toponym) changes depending on the person or political entity who is describing that place. In colonized landscapes, there can...
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fthcommons:oai:hcommons.org/hc:19929 2024-09-15T18:09:46+00:00 Resolving the Polynymy of Place: or, how to create a gazetteer of colonized landscapes KATHERINE FAULL Diane Jakacki 2018 https://doi.org/10.17613/M6BG2H91J English eng http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6BG2H91J 963599:Digital humanities:topical 904058:Eighteenth century:topical 940469:Geography:topical 1204155:United States:geographic 1355641:1600-1775:chronological 814030:Archives:topical 2018 fthcommons https://doi.org/10.17613/M6BG2H91J 2024-09-03T00:41:39Z This paper will explore the problem of creating a gazetteer of colonized landscapes, specifically those of the mid-Atlantic in the 18th century, in which the name of a place (toponym) changes depending on the person or political entity who is describing that place. In colonized landscapes, there can be multiple names for one place. Maps of this period are veritable palimpsests of conquests and defeats; and travel diaries, mission records and letters contain accounts of human experience of places that are multiply identified. The task is made more complicated still when one factors time into the equation: when competing spatial identities persist across generations. The paper proposes a two-phased approach to developing the Moravian Lives gazetteer, which will expand geographically to places beyond North America and will need to resolve polynymic complexities in Central Europe, the Arctic areas of Greenland and Newfoundland, the Caribbean, South Africa and Australia. Other/Unknown Material Greenland Newfoundland Humanities Commons CORE Deposits |
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This paper will explore the problem of creating a gazetteer of colonized landscapes, specifically those of the mid-Atlantic in the 18th century, in which the name of a place (toponym) changes depending on the person or political entity who is describing that place. In colonized landscapes, there can be multiple names for one place. Maps of this period are veritable palimpsests of conquests and defeats; and travel diaries, mission records and letters contain accounts of human experience of places that are multiply identified. The task is made more complicated still when one factors time into the equation: when competing spatial identities persist across generations. The paper proposes a two-phased approach to developing the Moravian Lives gazetteer, which will expand geographically to places beyond North America and will need to resolve polynymic complexities in Central Europe, the Arctic areas of Greenland and Newfoundland, the Caribbean, South Africa and Australia. |
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Resolving the Polynymy of Place: or, how to create a gazetteer of colonized landscapes |
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Resolving the Polynymy of Place: or, how to create a gazetteer of colonized landscapes |
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Resolving the Polynymy of Place: or, how to create a gazetteer of colonized landscapes |
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Resolving the Polynymy of Place: or, how to create a gazetteer of colonized landscapes |
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resolving the polynymy of place: or, how to create a gazetteer of colonized landscapes |
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