Beth: Chellis, you have always been out of the mainstream, off the main map so to speak. So what's the difference between the Chellis Glendinning who lives in Chimayo and the one who once lived in San Francisco?
Beth Burrows
Locating Chellis
2001 Fall | Beth Burrows
An interview with Chellis Glendinning by Beth Burrows Chellis Glendinning takes politics very personally. You see that in her latest book, Off the Map (An Expedition Deep into Imperialism, the Global Economy and Other Earthly Whereabouts), wherein she journeys through Northern New Mexico, her childhood, and the consequences of half a millennium of violent, unrelenting imperialism to deliver a stunning lesson about how maps--cognitive or otherwise--serve to define, enclose, and conquer. I phoned her in Chimayo, New Mexico late last year to do an interview and learn about the power of maps.
