Experiencing New Worlds /
Experiencing New Worlds /
ed. by Katharina Stockhaus, Jürg Wassmann.
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific ; 1 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Local Actors -- 1 The Methodological Interface of Psychology and Anthropology -- 2 Rethinking Tradition: Invention, Cultural Continuity and Agency -- 3 Intentionality of Action in Cultural Context -- 4 Positioned Meaning in Personal Narrative -- 5 Actors and Actions in ‘Exotic’ Places -- Part II Emplacement and Landscape -- 6 Power, Knowledge and the Organization of Space -- 7 On the Constitution of Space and the Construction of Places: Java’s Magic Axis -- 8 Elementary Methodological Tools for a Recursive Approach to Human-Environmental Relations -- 9 Tempestuous Landscapes: Persons, Places and Memory in Two Vanuatu Hurricanes -- 10 The ‘Anthropology of Landscape’ as a Research Method -- Part III Memory -- 11 Smell, Person, Space and Memory -- 12 Memory Measurement -- 13 The Nijmegen Space Games: Studying the Interrelationship between Language, Culture and Cognition -- 14 The Perception of Space from a Psychological Perspective -- 15 Conducting Cognitive Tasks and Interpreting the Results: The Case of Spatial Inference Tasks -- Notes on the Contributors -- References -- Index
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The many different localities of the Pacific region have a long history of transformation, under both pre- and post-colonial conditions. More recently, rates of local transformation have increased tremendously under post-colonial regimes. The forces of globalization, which rapidly distribute commodities, images, and political and moral concepts across the region, have presented Pacific populations with an unprecedented need and opportunity to fashion new and expanded understandings of their cultural and individual identities. This volume, the first in a new series, examines the forces of globalization at different levels, as they manifest themselves and operate across cultural, cognitive and biographical dimensions of human life in the Pacific. While posing familiar questions, it offers new answers through the integration of cultural and psychological methods. The contributors draw on practice theory, cognitive science and the anthropology of space and place while exploring the key analytical rubrics of human agency, memory and landscape.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781800735132
10.1515/9781800735132 doi
Cognition and culture--Congresses.
Geographical perception--Congresses.
Human geography--Congresses.
Landscape assessment--Congresses.
Space perception--Congresses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
GF95 / .E974 2007
304.2
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Local Actors -- 1 The Methodological Interface of Psychology and Anthropology -- 2 Rethinking Tradition: Invention, Cultural Continuity and Agency -- 3 Intentionality of Action in Cultural Context -- 4 Positioned Meaning in Personal Narrative -- 5 Actors and Actions in ‘Exotic’ Places -- Part II Emplacement and Landscape -- 6 Power, Knowledge and the Organization of Space -- 7 On the Constitution of Space and the Construction of Places: Java’s Magic Axis -- 8 Elementary Methodological Tools for a Recursive Approach to Human-Environmental Relations -- 9 Tempestuous Landscapes: Persons, Places and Memory in Two Vanuatu Hurricanes -- 10 The ‘Anthropology of Landscape’ as a Research Method -- Part III Memory -- 11 Smell, Person, Space and Memory -- 12 Memory Measurement -- 13 The Nijmegen Space Games: Studying the Interrelationship between Language, Culture and Cognition -- 14 The Perception of Space from a Psychological Perspective -- 15 Conducting Cognitive Tasks and Interpreting the Results: The Case of Spatial Inference Tasks -- Notes on the Contributors -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The many different localities of the Pacific region have a long history of transformation, under both pre- and post-colonial conditions. More recently, rates of local transformation have increased tremendously under post-colonial regimes. The forces of globalization, which rapidly distribute commodities, images, and political and moral concepts across the region, have presented Pacific populations with an unprecedented need and opportunity to fashion new and expanded understandings of their cultural and individual identities. This volume, the first in a new series, examines the forces of globalization at different levels, as they manifest themselves and operate across cultural, cognitive and biographical dimensions of human life in the Pacific. While posing familiar questions, it offers new answers through the integration of cultural and psychological methods. The contributors draw on practice theory, cognitive science and the anthropology of space and place while exploring the key analytical rubrics of human agency, memory and landscape.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781800735132
10.1515/9781800735132 doi
Cognition and culture--Congresses.
Geographical perception--Congresses.
Human geography--Congresses.
Landscape assessment--Congresses.
Space perception--Congresses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
GF95 / .E974 2007
304.2