In his seminal work Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson mentions the map as one of the three institutions of power, along with the census and the museum, which deeply influenced the way the colonial state imagined its domination: “the nature of the human beings it ruled, the geography of its domain, and the legitimacy of its ancestry” (Anderson B., 2006: 167). As full-fledged instruments of colonizing strategies from the 18th century on,...