Experiencing new worlds / edited by Jürg Wassmann and Katharina Stockhaus. - x, 350 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. - Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; v. 1 . - Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; v. 1. .

"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.

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

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Human geography--Congresses
Space perception--Congresses
Geographical perception--Congresses
Landscape assessment--Congresses
Cognition and culture--Congresses

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