Captain Cook's First Voyage
You're Dead to Me
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The Newance Window
James Cook was a highly trained and highly skilled nautical surveyor who made enduring maps and charts. His chart of atero and new zealand, for example, was used well into the nineteenth century. But making maps is not an objective act. Like all material cultures, humans imbue objects with implicit and explicit politic, cultural and social messages. The kinds of maps and charts that cook made were products that grew out of a european nautical tradition which was very different in material culture and practice than other cultures.
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