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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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|datacite____::6aff4a0c4c565f62289bf64e3fdb17b6 2023-05-15T15:04:27+02:00 Resolving the Polynymy of Place: or, how to create a gazetteer of colonized landscapes FAULL, KATHERINE Jakacki, Diane 2018-01-01 https://doi.org/10.17613/m6bg2h91j en eng Humanities Commons http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/m6bg2h91j https://dx.doi.org/10.17613/m6bg2h91j undefined 10.17613/m6bg2h91j 10|openaire____::9e3be59865b2c1c335d32dae2fe7b254 10|re3data_____::31e7e17f430cb2804771e928f5bf6ea0 10|openaire____::55045bd2a65019fd8e6741a755395c8c Digital humanities 18th-century studies Geography Colonial America Archives hist anthro-se Conference Output https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_c94f/ 2018 fttriple https://doi.org/10.17613/m6bg2h91j 2023-01-22T17:21:37Z 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 Arctic Greenland Newfoundland Unknown Arctic Greenland |
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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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