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Mentální mapy obyvatel vesnice Yawan v interdisciplinární perspektivě
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This study concerns an interdisciplinary analysis and interpretation of those mental maps created by pupils of an elementary school in the village of Yawan. This village is found in the province of Morobe in Papua New Guinea. The introduction provides an explanation of the context for the creation of these maps, i.e. a broader anthropological investigation in the village during the summer of 2009. As this study has an interdisciplinary character, the authors attempt to perform a comprehensive analysis of the maps. The cartographical focus of the study concerns map language, style, content, and other approaches to map composition, including in some cases its accuracy in terms of comparison with a photograph of the corresponding village.
From an anthropological point of view, the goal is to contextualize mental maps within the ethnographic
community of Yawan. Finally, the psychological analysis and interpretation of these
mental maps focuses on them primarily as creative artefacts with regard to the use of drawing
materials, colours and shapes in the drawing of maps.
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... This ethnic group is almost unknown anthropologically. Only a few smaller studies are available, published by the authors as the output of previous fieldwork (see Bláha -Soukup -Balcerová 2011;Hubeňáková -Soukup 2012). A general description of Nungon culture was also provided by a missionary, Urs Wegmann (1990), who lived among the Nungons in the 1980s. ...
... When trying to obtain mental maps from adults, we faced a problem with drawing skills and their limitation in participating. Moreover, drawing is a natural activity for children which breaks down barriers and it is also a suitable tool for analysis of the Nungon community has been carried out in the past by the authors (Bláha -Soukup -Balcerová 2011;Bláha 2014), and it was based on the previous visits of the community by one of the authors. ...
This study uses participatory research in spatial anthropology. The aim of the study is to demonstrate the possibilities in using maps in ethnology and anthropology, and to introduce the potential of the interdisciplinary cooperation of cartographers and geographers with ethnologists and anthropologists. In addition, the authors try to demonstrate the influence of maps and visual information on the life of a local community and local education using examples. In their study, the authors show the results of the field research which they carried out together on the Nungon community in Papua New Guinea. The authors show that sharing the results of the research with the participants may generate other research questions and bring new research topics in spatial anthropology.
Cross-culture Research: Use of Mental Maps and Their Relation to Map Stylistics / Cultural specificities can be identified in cartographic works. These specificities are closely related to the stylistics of cartography, i.e. styles of maps. This opens wide possibilities not only for an analysis of cartographic works from cultural studies point of view, but also for a global analysis of cultural differences. The paper outlines the possibilities of mental map analyses. These mental maps come from respondents from various cultures in order to come to a description of the cultural differences in the map language or content.
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