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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Thank you!

Answer 3

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