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The empire visits the metropolis: the red Atlantic, spatial habitus and the Cherokee

This article explores the manner in which spatial knowledge affected colonial encounters. Utilizing Bourdieu's concept of habitus, I argue that space, like language, art, and gender, is a cultural construct and that for each individual nation there existed a spatial habitus. This spatial understanding was one lens through which contact was viewed. Using the concept of contrasting spatial habitus, the article seeks to explain the actions, by both European and Cherokee individuals, during the visit to Cherokee space by Sir Alexander Cuming in 1730 and the subsequent return visit of Cuming and seven Cherokee to London. It unpacks the events during Cuming's Atlantic travels showing that both incidents were interpreted differently by each nation through their own spatial habitus. Thereby showing that travelers whether they be British moving to America or Cherokee moving to England carried with them their spatial understandings as clearly as they carried their baggage.