Map drawing in Tonga, Polynesia : Accessing mental representations of space
Contenu
Type de document
article de périodique
Titre
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Revue/Ouvrage
Field Methods
Volume-no
Vol.14
Auteurs/Editeurs scientifiques
Bennardo, Giovanni
Nombre de pages
28
Date de publication
2002
Pagination
390-417
Mot-clés
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.