The American Southern Baptist Mission and Maps of Yorùbáland: The Evolution of a Cartographic Style

IF 1 4区地球科学 Q3 GEOGRAPHY

Cartographic Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI:10.1080/00087041.2023.2246316

Babatunde Adedayo Ogundiwin

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ABSTRACTThe Southern Baptist cartographic style portraying Yorùbáland in the mid-nineteenth century shifted the graphic appearance of this geographical space. This paper asserts that this graphic appearance reflects the evangelical thought of spreading the gospel and marked a very significant transition in the visual portrayal of West-Central Africa. Employing an historical-stylistic analysis, this paper examines the Christian missionary contribution to the appearance of the Yorùbá landscape in nineteenth-century maps. The Southern Baptist missionary maps of the 1850s, resulting from evangelical discourses and missionary work, highlighted geographical features that gave a new landscape identity to Yorùbáland. The map design of this ethno-territorial space emphasises an evangelical concern for well-populated regions. Hence, this study highlights the role of missionary maps in the distinctive visual expression of an ethnic territory in West African geography.KEYWORDS: Cartographic styleSouthern Baptist MissionYorùbálandThomas BowenWilliam Keenan Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsBabatunde Adedayo OgundiwinBabatunde Adedayo Ogundiwin is currently a doctoral student at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa having gained Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria. His thesis explores the role of maps in providing visual insights into agrarian spatial thought.

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美国美南浸信会传教会和Yorùbáland地图:制图风格的演变

【摘要】十九世纪中期美南浸信会绘制Yorùbáland的制图风格改变了这一地理空间的图形外观。本文认为，这一图形的出现反映了福音派传播福音的思想，标志着西非视觉形象的一个非常重要的转变。采用历史风格分析，本文考察了基督教传教士对19世纪地图Yorùbá景观外观的贡献。19世纪50年代的美南浸信会传教士地图，由福音派的演讲和传教工作产生，突出了地理特征，给Yorùbáland带来了新的景观身份。这个民族领土空间的地图设计强调了福音派对人口稠密地区的关注。因此，本研究强调了传教士地图在西非地理中独特的民族领土视觉表达中的作用。关键词:制图样式南方浸信会MissionYorùbálandThomas BowenWilliam Keenan披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。babatunde Adedayo Ogundiwin目前是南非约翰内斯堡威特沃特斯兰德大学的一名博士生，在尼日利亚阿卡市拉各斯大学获得学士和硕士学位。他的论文探讨了地图在为农业空间思想提供视觉洞察方面的作用。

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Cartographic Journal GEOGRAPHY-

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2.60

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期刊介绍： The Cartographic Journal (first published in 1964) is an established peer reviewed journal of record and comment containing authoritative articles and international papers on all aspects of cartography, the science and technology of presenting, communicating and analysing spatial relationships by means of maps and other geographical representations of the Earth"s surface. This includes coverage of related technologies where appropriate, for example, remote sensing, geographical information systems (GIS), the internet and global positioning systems. The Journal also publishes articles on social, political and historical aspects of cartography.