CARTOGRAPHIC SOURCES AND TERRITORIAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF ETHIOPIA SINCE THE LATE 18TH CENTURY

18 世纪末以来埃塞俄比亚的地图来源和领土变迁

• 批准号: 281699264
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Wolbert Smidt
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/281699264?language=en
• 关键词: CARTOGRAPHIC; SOURCES; TERRITORIAL; TRANSFORMATIONS; ETHIOPIA

Our knowledge of the geography of Ethiopia is marked by especially rich and ancient political and cultural history, ethnic diversity and a very rich corpus of historical and cultural source material. These include centuries-old local written works and oral traditions in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia and neighboring Muslim polities. From the 19th century, the production of academic knowledge on Ethiopia and other territories of northeastern Africa include many maps and topographic information produced by foreign researchers and co-produced by anonymous local informants, such as traditional scholars, merchants and office holders of Christian Ethiopia and even in some cases of several neighboring kingdoms, disappeared today. However, the absence of compendium of maps has led to a fundamental ignorance of their potential resources of information for studies of the country and its region.The members of the French-German team, in close association with Ethiopian partners, have accumulated a lot of experience in fieldwork, combined with many years of work in archives and teaching experiences in Ethiopian universities. Their common observation is that there is an urgent need for a geo-historical instrument and reference work which can help to study and understand the meaning of maps: the epistemic operations behind the inscription of toponyms and ethnonyms; the evolution of spatial representations; the roots of territorial claims; the sustainability of collective memory; and the power of social imaginations to adapt to changing landscapes. This research will result in invaluable tools for accessing to the information contained in historical maps and for taking into consideration in other fields of study which have shaped the representations of space.The objectives of ETHIOMAP are twofold:1. Collection, critical analysis and indexation of historical cartographic sources: The project will collect, critically describe, analyze, index and publish a documentation of widely unknown, but historically important maps of Ethiopia and neighboring countries of northeastern Africa. The scope of the research is limited to maps that were designed between 1790 and 1944, each of them representing a specific historical period and constituting excellent ethnographic or historical sources that have been neglected by the general trend of studies on this area of the world. A selection of 25 maps will be fully indexed and made accessible through an on-line map-viewer application. 2. This work will be supplemented by targeted fieldwork investigations on contemporary territories. Selected areas of the most informative maps of the corpus will be compared to the corresponding territories in current-day Ethiopia. Through four focused surveys, we first expect to reach a better understanding of the work of map-makers by returning on their footsteps and by collecting cultural-historical spatial information from local populations in local context.

我们对埃塞俄比亚地理的了解的特点是特别丰富和古老的政治和文化历史、种族多样性以及非常丰富的历史和文化原始资料。这些包括埃塞俄比亚基督教王国和邻近穆斯林政治中数百年历史的当地书面作品和口头传统。从19世纪世纪开始，关于埃塞俄比亚和非洲东北部其他地区的学术知识的生产包括许多地图和地形信息，这些地图和地形信息是由外国研究人员制作的，并由匿名的当地线人共同制作的，例如传统的学者，商人和基督教埃塞俄比亚的官员，甚至在某些情况下，几个邻国的王国，今天已经消失了。然而，由于没有地图简编，人们根本不了解这些地图对研究该国及其区域的潜在信息资源，法国-德国小组成员与埃塞俄比亚伙伴密切合作，积累了大量实地工作经验，加上多年的档案工作和在埃塞俄比亚大学的教学经验。他们的共同看法是，迫切需要一种有助于研究和理解地图意义的地理历史工具和参考资料：地名和民族名题字背后的认识活动;空间表示法的演变;领土主张的根源;集体记忆的可持续性;以及社会想象力适应不断变化的景观的力量。这项研究将产生宝贵的工具，用于获取历史地图中所载的信息，并考虑到其他研究领域对空间表示的影响。收集，批判性分析和历史制图来源的索引：该项目将收集，批判性描述，分析，索引和出版埃塞俄比亚和非洲东北部邻国的广泛未知，但历史上重要的地图文件。研究范围仅限于1790年至1944年之间设计的地图，每幅地图都代表一个特定的历史时期，构成了优秀的人种学或历史资料，但这些资料被世界这一地区研究的一般趋势所忽视。选定的25幅地图将全部编入索引，并可通过在线地图浏览器应用程序查阅。2.这项工作将辅之以对当代领土的有针对性的实地调查。将把资料库中信息量最大的地图的选定地区与当今埃塞俄比亚的相应领土进行比较。通过四个重点调查，我们首先期望通过返回他们的足迹和收集当地人口在当地背景下的文化历史空间信息，更好地了解地图制作者的工作。