List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jürg Wassmann and Verena Keck
PART I: LOCAL ACTORS
Chapter 1. The Methodological Interface of Psychology and
Anthropology
Ramesh C. Mishra and Pierre R. Dasen
Chapter 2. Rethinking Tradition: Invention, Cultural
Continuity and Agency
Ton Otto
Chapter 3. Intentionality of Action in Cultural
Context
Gisela Trommsdorff
Chapter 4. Positioned Meaning in Personal Narrative
Stephen C. Leavitt
Chapter 5. Actors and Actions in ‘Exotic’ Places
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
PART II: EMPLACEMENT AND LANDSCAPE
Chapter 6. Power, Knowledge and the Organization of
Space
Peter Meusburger
Chapter 7. On the Constitution of Space and the
Construction of Places: Java’s Magic Axis
Werner Hennings
Chapter 8. Elementary Methodological Tools for a
Recursive Approach to Human-Environmental Relations
Katja Neves-Graça
Chapter 9. Tempestuous Landscapes: Persons, Places and
Memory in Two Vanuatu Hurricanes
Margaret C. Rodman
Chapter 10. The ‘Anthropology of Landscape’ as a Research
Method
Susanne Kuehling
PART III: MEMORY
Chapter 11. Smell, Person, Space and Memory
Bettina Beer
Chapter 12. Memory Measurement
Edgar Erdfelder and Martin Brandt
Chapter 13. The Nijmegen Space Games: Studying the
Interrelationship between Language, Culture and Cognition
Gunter Senft
Chapter 14. The Perception of Space from a Psychological
Perspective
Joachim Funke
Chapter 15. Conducting Cognitive Tasks and Interpreting
the Results: The Case of Spatial Inference Tasks
Thomas Widlok
Notes on the Contributors
References
Index
Jürg Wassmann is Professor for Anthropology and Head of the Institute of Ethnology, University of Heidelberg. His field area is Papua New Guinea where he has carried out fieldwork among the Iatmul and the Yupno, and Bali, Indonesia. His publications include The Song to the Flying Fox (IPNGS 1991), Historical Atlas of Ethnic and Linguistic Groups in Papua New Guinea, Volume 3 (Wepf 1994), has edited Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction (Berg 1998).
“After having read this collection, the reader has an inspired conception about the possibilities of the exciting and methodologically varied research field [of space cognition]. It is a special merit of this volume to bring together the different disciplines and to show the fundamental methodological possibilities and problems of the of the individual disciplines.” · Zeitschrift für Ethnologie
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