TY  - GEN
A1  - Eckstein, Lars
A1  - Schwarz, Anja
T1  - The Making of Tupaia’s Map
BT  - a Story of the Extent and Mastery of Polynesian Navigation, Competing Systems of Wayfinding on James Cook’s Endeavour, and the Invention of an Ingenious Cartographic System
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Philosophische Reihe
N2  - Tupaia’s Map is one of the most famous and enigmatic artefacts to emerge from the early encounters between Europeans and Pacific Islanders. It was drawn by Tupaia, an arioi priest, chiefly advisor and master navigator from Ra‘iātea in the Leeward Society Islands in collaboration with various members of the crew of James Cook’s Endeavour, in two distinct moments of mapmaking and three draft stages between August 1769 and February 1770. To this day, the identity of many islands on the chart, and the logic of their arrangement have posed a riddle to researchers. Drawing in part on archival material hitherto overlooked, in this long essay we propose a new understanding of the chart’s cartographic logic, offer a detailed reconstruction of its genesis, and thus for the first time present a comprehensive reading of Tupaia’s Map. The chart not only underscores the extent and mastery of Polynesian navigation, it is also a remarkable feat of translation between two very different wayfinding systems and their respective representational models.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 154 
KW  - artography
KW  - first contact
KW  - wayfinding
KW  - star navigation
KW  - sea of islands
KW  - translation
KW  - Indigenous knowledges and ontologies
KW  - Tupaia
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-423091
SN  - 1866-8380
IS  - 154
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Eckstein, Lars
A1  - Schwarz, Anja
T1  - Postcolonial piracy
BT  - Media distribution and cultural production in the global south
T2  - Theory for a global age
N2  - Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer hardware; the global dissemination of the internet and mobile phones in the new millennium: all these have revolutionised the access of previously marginalised populations to the cultural flows of global modernity.

Yet this access also engenders a pirate occupation of the modern: it ducks and deranges the globalised designs of property, capitalism and personhood set by the North. Positioning itself against Eurocentric critiques by corporate lobbies, libertarian readings or classical Marxist interventions, this volume offers a profound postcolonial revaluation of the social, epistemic and aesthetic workings of piracy. It projects how postcolonial piracy persistently negotiates different trajectories of property and self at the crossroads of the global and the local.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 89 
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-72189
ER  -