Experiencing New Worlds

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-327-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 675 g

Reihe: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wassmann, Jürg

Stockhaus, Katharina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Stockhaus, Katharina
Katharina Stockhaus studied Languages and Cultures of Austronesia at the University of Hamburg and now is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Ethnology (University of Heidelberg) where she studies the life and work of indigenous Pacific authors and has taught courses on Maori Language, Pacific Migration in New Zealand and Pacific Literature.

Wassmann, Jürg
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).

Katharina Stockhaus studied Languages and Cultures of Austronesia at the University of Hamburg and now is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Ethnology (University of Heidelberg) where she studies the life and work of indigenous Pacific authors and has taught courses on Maori Language, Pacific Migration in New Zealand and Pacific Literature.