Maps have been used in ethnographic field research since the emergence of modern ethnographic filed research. Malinowski included “extensive maps, plans and diagrams, illustrating ownership in garden land, hunting and fishing privileges” as one of “the more fundamental documents…

  Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges, has a short story titled On Exactitude of Science that beautifully speaks to the dilemma of maps: …In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province…