Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).

Reviews

“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