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Blog "Mapping Africa and Asia"

To accompany the research and digitisation project"Cartographies of Africa and Asia (KarAfAs)" (2021-2023), a project blog was launched under the direction of Dr Claudia Berger to document outstanding finds and initial results of the digitisation process. The project and digitisation were successfully completed at the beginning of 2023. However, research into the Gotha Perthes Collection's maps of Africa and Asia will continue. In order to make this work visible, the blog has been continued since 2024 under the new editorship of Albert Feierabend and Florian Balbiani at the Forschungskolleg Transkulturelle Studien.

To the blog "Mapping Africa and Asia"

Latest contributions:

• Müller, Sara, The Black Triangle. German Colonialism in Oceania and the Hunt for Gutta-Percha, in: Mapping Africa and Asia, 18.08.2025, https://karafas.hypotheses.org/8553.
• Feierabend, Albert, Workshop: "The Ethiopian Pillow" - Towards a New Cultural Mapping of Headrests, in: Mapping Africa and Asia, 07.08.2025, https://doi.org/10.58079/14aon.
• Nauheim, Tobit, From Fieldwork in Japan to Print: The Reciprocal Relationship between Johannes Justus Rein and the Perthes Publishing House, in: Mapping Africa and Asia, 01.07.2025, https://doi.org/10.58079/148zf.