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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures and Tables vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
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Part I Local Actors
- 1 The Methodological Interface of Psychology and Anthropology 21
- 2 Rethinking Tradition: Invention, Cultural Continuity and Agency 36
- 3 Intentionality of Action in Cultural Context 58
- 4 Positioned Meaning in Personal Narrative 78
- 5 Actors and Actions in ‘Exotic’ Places 95
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Part II Emplacement and Landscape
- 6 Power, Knowledge and the Organization of Space 111
- 7 On the Constitution of Space and the Construction of Places: Java’s Magic Axis 125
- 8 Elementary Methodological Tools for a Recursive Approach to Human-Environmental Relations 146
- 9 Tempestuous Landscapes: Persons, Places and Memory in Two Vanuatu Hurricanes 165
- 10 The ‘Anthropology of Landscape’ as a Research Method 176
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Part III Memory
- 11 Smell, Person, Space and Memory 187
- 12 Memory Measurement 201
- 13 The Nijmegen Space Games: Studying the Interrelationship between Language, Culture and Cognition 224
- 14 The Perception of Space from a Psychological Perspective 245
- 15 Conducting Cognitive Tasks and Interpreting the Results: The Case of Spatial Inference Tasks 258
- Notes on the Contributors 281
- References 287
- Index 331
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures and Tables vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
-
Part I Local Actors
- 1 The Methodological Interface of Psychology and Anthropology 21
- 2 Rethinking Tradition: Invention, Cultural Continuity and Agency 36
- 3 Intentionality of Action in Cultural Context 58
- 4 Positioned Meaning in Personal Narrative 78
- 5 Actors and Actions in ‘Exotic’ Places 95
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Part II Emplacement and Landscape
- 6 Power, Knowledge and the Organization of Space 111
- 7 On the Constitution of Space and the Construction of Places: Java’s Magic Axis 125
- 8 Elementary Methodological Tools for a Recursive Approach to Human-Environmental Relations 146
- 9 Tempestuous Landscapes: Persons, Places and Memory in Two Vanuatu Hurricanes 165
- 10 The ‘Anthropology of Landscape’ as a Research Method 176
-
Part III Memory
- 11 Smell, Person, Space and Memory 187
- 12 Memory Measurement 201
- 13 The Nijmegen Space Games: Studying the Interrelationship between Language, Culture and Cognition 224
- 14 The Perception of Space from a Psychological Perspective 245
- 15 Conducting Cognitive Tasks and Interpreting the Results: The Case of Spatial Inference Tasks 258
- Notes on the Contributors 281
- References 287
- Index 331