I agree with Basso's statement, however he goes on to say that words might provide the most "instructive" representations of the landscape. At this point, I don't agree. Though, coming from a discipline that does rely heavily on cognitive mapping and coginitive drawings, I'm probably biased to say that pictorial representations would be equally eye-opening as to "other peoples' worlds".
Good point; from the context I had thought that he was speaking from the 'coming in from outside the culture' perspective, and that words were what he had to use in forming conclusions on how place and space form and frame the thoughts and meanings of the speakers in the West Apache frame; perhaps I was mistaken!
Back to the Aorist-sense one gets from the place/name effect on thought, do you see a similar occurrence here? The concreteness of the place seems to enable the immediate move into words, couching them in the common frame of the place and actions taken in the place.
I agree with Basso's statement, however he goes on to say that words might provide the most "instructive" representations of the landscape. At this point, I don't agree. Though, coming from a discipline that does rely heavily on cognitive mapping and coginitive drawings, I'm probably biased to say that pictorial representations would be equally eye-opening as to "other peoples' worlds".
Posted by: Amanda Merchant | January 16, 2007 05:46 PM
Good point; from the context I had thought that he was speaking from the 'coming in from outside the culture' perspective, and that words were what he had to use in forming conclusions on how place and space form and frame the thoughts and meanings of the speakers in the West Apache frame; perhaps I was mistaken!
Back to the Aorist-sense one gets from the place/name effect on thought, do you see a similar occurrence here? The concreteness of the place seems to enable the immediate move into words, couching them in the common frame of the place and actions taken in the place.
What do you think?
Thanks!
Tom H.
Posted by: Tom Herring | January 17, 2007 02:26 PM