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Map drawing in Tonga, Polynesia : Accessing mental representations of space

Contenu

Type de document

article de périodique

Titre

Map drawing in Tonga, Polynesia : Accessing mental representations of space

Revue/Ouvrage

Field Methods

Volume-no

Vol.14

Auteurs/Editeurs scientifiques

Bennardo, Giovanni

Nombre de pages

28

Date de publication

2002

Pagination

390-417

Langue

ang

ISBN/ISSN

1525-822X

Résumé

On the island of Vava'u in the northern archipelago of the Kingdom of Tonga, Polynesia, the author asked informants to draw a map of their village and later of the island they live on. Combining the drawing strategies used and the representational distortions inferred from the maps, the author arrived at hypotheses about how mental representations of spatial relationships are habitually organized in Tongan minds. The drawing tasks are described in detail.