Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age

801 Pages·2016·148.79 MB·English

by  Kenneth J. Guest

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THE PETERS WORLD MAP
How do maps shape the way you think about the world and its
people? The Earth is round. So every flat, rectangular map involves
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distortions. But which distortions? The Peters world map is an
Zealand
equal-area map, showing countries and continents in accurate
proportion with one another and reducing the visual dominance of
the Northern Hemisphere by shifting the equator to the middle of the
map, both in sharp contrast to the more familiar Mercator projection.
A n t a r c t i c a
WORLD • POLITICAL
NATIONAL BOUNDARIES
While humanity’s impact is quite evident, and even striking, on
many remotely sensed scenes, sometimes, as in the case with most
political boundaries, it is invisible. State, provincial, and national
boundaries can follow natural features, such as mountain ridges,
rivers, or coastlines. Artificial constructs that possess no physi-
cal reality— for example, lines of latitude and longitude— can also
determine political borders. This world political map represents
man’s imaginary lines as they slice and divide Earth.
The National Geographic Society recognizes 192 independent
states in the world as represented here. Of those nations, 185 are
members of the United Nations.
Winkel Tripel Projection

Cultural Anthropology
a toolkit for a global age
second edition
kenneth j. guest
baruch college
the city university of new york
w. w. norton & company
new york london