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Experiencing new worlds / edited by Jürg Wassmann and Katharina Stockhaus.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; v. 1.Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007Description: x, 350 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1845453271
  • 9781845453275
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2 22
LOC classification:
  • GF95 .E97 2007
Contents:
Pt. I. Local Actors -- 1. The Methodological Interface of Psychology and Anthropology / Ramesh C. Mishra and Pierre R. Dasen -- 2. Rethinking Tradition: Invention, Cultural Continuity and Agency / Ton Otto -- 3. Intentionality of Action In Cultural Context / Gisela Trommsdorff -- 4. Positioned Meaning in Personal Narrative / Stephen C. Leavitt -- 5. Actors and Actions in 'Exotic' Places / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Pt. II. Emplacement and Landscape -- 6. Power, Knowledge and the Organization of Space / Peter Meusburger -- 7. On the Constitution of Space and the Construction of Places: Java's Magic Axis / Werner Hennings -- 8. Elementary Methodological Tools for a Recursive Approach to Human-Environmental Relations / Katja Neves-Graca -- 9. Tempestuous Landscapes: Persons, Places and Memory In Two Vanuatu Hurricanes / Margaret C. Rodman -- 10. The 'Anthropology of Landscape' as a Research Method / Susanne Kuehling -- Pt. III. Memory -- 11. Smell, Person, Space and Memory / Bettina Beer -- 12. Memory Measurement / Edgar Erdfelder and Martin Brandt -- 13. The Nijmegen Space Games: Studying the Interrelationship between Language, Culture and Cognition / Gunter Senft -- 14. The Perception of Space from a Psychological Perspective / Joachim Funke -- 15. Conducting Cognitive Tasks and Interpreting the Results: The Case of Spatial Inference Tasks / Thomas Widlok.
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"Some of the essays brought together in this volume were originally presented at the symposium, Space Games: New Research Approaches to Spatial Orientation, Spatial Perception and Spatial Cognition', held in Heidelberg, May 2003"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-330) and index.

Pt. I. Local Actors -- 1. The Methodological Interface of Psychology and Anthropology / Ramesh C. Mishra and Pierre R. Dasen -- 2. Rethinking Tradition: Invention, Cultural Continuity and Agency / Ton Otto -- 3. Intentionality of Action In Cultural Context / Gisela Trommsdorff -- 4. Positioned Meaning in Personal Narrative / Stephen C. Leavitt -- 5. Actors and Actions in 'Exotic' Places / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Pt. II. Emplacement and Landscape -- 6. Power, Knowledge and the Organization of Space / Peter Meusburger -- 7. On the Constitution of Space and the Construction of Places: Java's Magic Axis / Werner Hennings -- 8. Elementary Methodological Tools for a Recursive Approach to Human-Environmental Relations / Katja Neves-Graca -- 9. Tempestuous Landscapes: Persons, Places and Memory In Two Vanuatu Hurricanes / Margaret C. Rodman -- 10. The 'Anthropology of Landscape' as a Research Method / Susanne Kuehling -- Pt. III. Memory -- 11. Smell, Person, Space and Memory / Bettina Beer -- 12. Memory Measurement / Edgar Erdfelder and Martin Brandt -- 13. The Nijmegen Space Games: Studying the Interrelationship between Language, Culture and Cognition / Gunter Senft -- 14. The Perception of Space from a Psychological Perspective / Joachim Funke -- 15. Conducting Cognitive Tasks and Interpreting the Results: The Case of Spatial Inference Tasks / Thomas Widlok.

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