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Berghahn Books Experiencing New Worlds 2007 Edition by Jurg Wassmann, Katharina Stockhaus
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 TablesAcknowledgementsIntroductionJurg Wassmann and Verena KeckPART I: LOCAL ACTORSChapter 1. The Methodological Interface of Psychology and AnthropologyRamesh C. Mishra and Pierre R. DasenChapter 2. Rethinking Tradition: Invention, Cultural Continuity and AgencyTon OttoChapter 3. Intentionality of Action in Cultural ContextGisela TrommsdorffChapter 4. Positioned Meaning in Personal NarrativeStephen C. LeavittChapter 5. Actors and Actions in 'Exotic' PlacesAndrew Strathern and Pamela J. StewartPART II: EMPLACEMENT AND LANDSCAPEChapter 6. Power, Knowledge and the Organization of SpacePeter MeusburgerChapter 7. On the Constitution of Space and the Construction of Places: Java's Magic AxisWerner HenningsChapter 8. Elementary Methodological Tools for a Recursive Approach to Human-Environmental RelationsKatja Neves-GracaChapter 9. Tempestuous Landscapes: Persons, Places and Memory in Two Vanuatu HurricanesMargaret C. RodmanChapter 10. The 'Anthropology of Landscape' as a Research MethodSusanne KuehlingPART III: MEMORYChapter 11. Smell, Person, Space and MemoryBettina BeerChapter 12. Memory MeasurementEdgar Erdfelder and Martin BrandtChapter 13. The Nijmegen Space Games: Studying the Interrelationship between Language, Culture and CognitionGunter SenftChapter 14. The Perception of Space from a Psychological PerspectiveJoachim FunkeChapter 15. Conducting Cognitive Tasks and Interpreting the Results: The Case of Spatial Inference TasksThomas WidlokNotes on the ContributorsReferencesIndex