TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wassmann,Jürg
AU  - Stockhaus,Katharina
TI  - Experiencing new worlds
T2  - Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific
SN  - 1845453271
AV  - GF95 .E97 2007
U1  - 304.2 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Space perception
KW  - Geographical perception
KW  - Landscape assessment
KW  - Cognition and culture
N1  - "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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