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I hsve a hard time understanding this reading: "Mediating Infanticide" by Charles Briggs. I do not understand what he is arguing! What is communicable cartography in Briggs' terms?
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Answered by
Ms. Sue
This is the section you're referring to.
"Stories about violence – whether narrated by police, reporters, judges, activist working on behalf of the accused, or anthropologist – work, according to Briggs, because of "communicable cartographies." Operating as a mode of symbolic domination, communicable cartographies create subject positions and organize them on moral maps, severely limiting the range of possible, thinkable responses."
http://www.culanth.org/articles/111-mediating-infanticide-theorizing-relations
Briggs was saying that communicable cartographies are like moral maps on which values are specifically placed. These "maps" make it nearly impossible to think logically.
"Stories about violence – whether narrated by police, reporters, judges, activist working on behalf of the accused, or anthropologist – work, according to Briggs, because of "communicable cartographies." Operating as a mode of symbolic domination, communicable cartographies create subject positions and organize them on moral maps, severely limiting the range of possible, thinkable responses."
http://www.culanth.org/articles/111-mediating-infanticide-theorizing-relations
Briggs was saying that communicable cartographies are like moral maps on which values are specifically placed. These "maps" make it nearly impossible to think logically.
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Anonymous
Thank you!
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Ms. Sue
You're welcome.