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Meaning of Cartography | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
kɐː(ɹ)ˈtɔɡɹəfɪi̯

Definitions

  1. The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography.
  2. An illustrative discussion of a topic.

Equivalents

Examples

“In the early years of my psychedelic research, I sketched a vastly expanded cartography of the psyche that seems to meet this challenge.”
“The Dalit feminist standpoint, and more specifically the national Federation of Dalit Women, provide in very clear terms a cartography of governance that forces an official reckoning of a new way of seeing.”
“Since this cartography is not a representation of already existing spaces or cinematic forms but is rather oriented towards the new, it could be described as a cartography of the virtual; however, since Ruiz's work makes a point of departing from the normative rules of cinematic construction as a first principle, this book will outline Ruiz's cartography of images as a cartography of the impossible.”
“In short, the volume aims to provide the reader with the coordinates for current debates in global art and to develop a cartography of the various conceptual and methodological intersections that global art studies is addressing today.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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