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Ethnographic mapping is an approach in anthropology and geography to the representation of cultural practices or cultural patterns through cartography. Most broadly, ethnographic mapping is the representation of ethnographic data in cartographic form.

Contemporary ethnographic mapping often works to represent the relationships between peoples and places across land and seascapes. These use large scale maps to represent local place names, significant places, storied places, territorial use and occupancy, map biographies, all of which are accompanied by annotations that describe the cultural relations and practices embodied at the locations represented. Another common approach to ethnographic mapping is to represent language, tribal, or cultural areas on relatively small scale maps.