Experiencing new worlds

Author(s)

• Wassmann, Jürg
• Stockhaus, Katharina

Bibliographic Information

Experiencing new worlds

edited by Jürg Wassmann and Katharina Stockhaus

（Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific, v. 1）

Berghahn Books, 2007

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Jurg 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-Graca 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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB17366595
• ISBN:
  • 9781845453275
• LCCN: 2007035168
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 350 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GF95
  • DC22 : 304.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Human geography -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Space perception -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Geographical perception -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Landscape assessment -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Cognition and culture -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB02778963