Cartographic Ethnography: Missionary Maps of an Eighteenth-Century Spanish Imperial Frontier

• Main Author: Dizon, Mark
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: ethnography; cartography; indigenous people; empire; Asia; Philippines; Luzon; borderland; mobility; Augustinians; conversion; cities; missions; animals; horses; History
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/55; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085694.2021.1835315
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The maps of a Spanish imperial frontier in the Philippines made in the eighteenth-century by the missionary Alejandro Cacho reflect an ethnographic approach that simultaneously reified and undermined Spanish notions of conquest and civilization. While Cacho celebrated mission towns and denigrated un...