Giovanni Bennardo
Biographic Data
| ID | 84593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giovanni Bennardo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giovanni |
| FAMILY NAME | Bennardo |
| SIGNATURE | BENNARDO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Radiality (space), sociocentrism, and Tongan representations of quality distinctions
Cognitive Foundations and Cultural Models
This chapter presents a coherent picture of culture as emerging from a distinctive human mind architecture. I consider the mental processes that characterize the components of mind, and the inherently constituting and structured knowledge that represents its content. Grounded in a necessary and eclectic theory of cognition, I propose that culture consists of mental models shared within a community, or cultural models. Both the undeniably universa…
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
Using consensus analysis as a discovery and a verification procedure for cultural models
Cultural model theory and consensus analysis
Language and Space
Spatial relationships are essential to the development of cognition. The empirical cross‐cultural investigation of the linguistic and mental representations of these relationships is Levinson's major contribution. He also proposes a type of linguistic relativity where a language preference for representing spatial relationships is congruent with a cognitive preference. Dasen and Mishra present a developmental approach to this issue and find cultu…
The conceptualization of nature in Tonga (Polynesia)
Cultural model theory in cognitive anthropology
The Linguistic Expression of Quality in Tongan
Cultural Model Theory is applied to the domain of quality in Tongan. Adjectives used by speakers to characterize particular nouns in free-listing tasks were compared with the set of words labeled as adjectives in Churchward's dictionary (an approximation to the total set of quality lexemes available to Tongan speakers); the free-listing results showed a greater incidence of adjectives denoting primary (intrinsic) qualities over secondary qualitie…
Cultural Models of Nature
Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models represent specific organizations of the etic categories underlying the concept of Nature (i.e. plants, animals, the physical environment, the weather, humans, and the supernatural). The adoption of a common methodology across th…
Disciplining Culture
Anthropology has an ambivalent relationship with its core disciplinary concept: culture. Beyond the rather vague but important notion that culture is shared and learned, there is little agreement about how to define and identify something as culture(al). In order to move beyond the "mush stage" of defining culture, we offer a disciplinary framework for considering how culture can be a collective that is individually held and used. Our emphasis is…
Cultural Models Theory
Frames of Reference and Kinship Terminology Systems
The content of the spatial relationships module has been extensively studied and a fundamental part of such content is the concept of frame of reference; that is, a set of coordinates that generates an oriented space within which relationships between objects are established. There are three major types (and six subtypes) of frames of reference: the relative, the intrinsic, and the absolute. The content of the spatial relationships module has bee…
Space and Culture
Giving directions is highly revealing of one's spatial competence, and it has been extensively investigated when researching universality and variation in the representation and use of spatial relationships. When giving directions in real-world situations, cultural parameters coparticipate in the production of linguistic production. This work reports about two "giving directions" tasks submitted in Tonga, Polynesia, to a number of subjects. The f…
A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology
On the Edge of the Global
Temporal Frames of Reference
Despite a close correspondence between spatial and temporal cognition, empirical approaches to the two domains have used distinct theoretical conceptions: frames of reference for the former, and moving perspectives and reference-point metaphors for the latter. Our analysis reveals that these conceptions can ‐ and should ‐ be related more closely to each other. Mapping spatial frames of reference (FoRs) onto temporal relations, we obtain a taxonom…
Familiar Space in Social Memory
In this article, I present an analysis of the results of a memory task (free listing) about social relationships administered to Tongans of Polynesia. Contrary to claims by Weller and Romney (1988) and Ross (2004), the free listing activity did not yield the expected results, i.e., salient social individuals occupying positions at the top of the list. The strategy used to report the village population was prominently spatial. Besides, the analysi…
Influence Structures in a Tongan Village
Tatau, tatau pé, katoa tatau ‘the same, just the same, all the same,’ is the phrase most Tongan villagers used when asked if any person within the village groups they had just mentioned was mahu'inga taha ‘most important.’ Such forceful insistence on equality among villagers seems incongruous in the context of a monarchial political system, the Kingdom of Tonga, the only surviving Polynesian monarchy.At the head of this highly stratified society …
Cognition, Algebra, and Culture in the Tongan Kinship Terminology
We present an algebraic account of the Tongan kinship terminology (TKT) that provides an insightful journey into the fabric of Tongan culture. We begin with the ethnographic account of a social event. e account provides us with the activities of that day and the centrality of kin relations in the event, but it does not inform us of the conceptual system that the participants bring with them. Rather, it is a slice in time of an ongoing dynamic pro…
The Language Revolution
Three Innovative Research Tools to Store, Visualize, and Analyze Data in and from the Field
In this article, the authors describe three research tools that have been prepared to store, visualize, and analyze data in and from the field. These tools are intended to be used for a research that investigates a hypothesized cultural model in Tonga, Polynesia. The three tools are (1) the Digitized Tonga database, (2) the interactive 3-D display of the island of Vava'u and the village of Houma, and (3) the Synchronized Media and Visualization A…
Constructing the Three-Dimensional World of Speech Events
This article describes the Digitized Tonga database project, the construction of a geographically and ethnographically very detailed three-dimensional representation of Tonga, Polynesia. This digital representation creates a rich landscape for extensive and in-depth analyses of linguistic and ethnographic data. The article provides a detailed description of the process by which the two-dimensional representation created by GIS (Geographic Informa…
Map Drawing in Tonga, Polynesia
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 i…
Cognitive Semantics, Typology, and Culture as a Cognitive System
Toward. Cognitive Semantics, Volume 1: Concept Structuring Systems. Leonard Talmy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. 565 pp.Toward. Cognitive Semantics, Volume 2: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring.Leonard Talmy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.495 pp
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
Cognition, Algebra, and Culture in the Tongan Kinship Terminology
We present an algebraic account of the Tongan kinship terminology (TKT) that provides an insightful journey into the fabric of Tongan culture. We begin with the ethnographic account of a social event. e account provides us with the activities of that day and the centrality of kin relations in the event, but it does not inform us of the conceptual system that the participants bring with them. Rather, it is a slice in time of an ongoing dynamic pro…
Disciplining Culture
Anthropology has an ambivalent relationship with its core disciplinary concept: culture. Beyond the rather vague but important notion that culture is shared and learned, there is little agreement about how to define and identify something as culture(al). In order to move beyond the "mush stage" of defining culture, we offer a disciplinary framework for considering how culture can be a collective that is individually held and used. Our emphasis is…
Temporal Frames of Reference
Despite a close correspondence between spatial and temporal cognition, empirical approaches to the two domains have used distinct theoretical conceptions: frames of reference for the former, and moving perspectives and reference-point metaphors for the latter. Our analysis reveals that these conceptions can ‐ and should ‐ be related more closely to each other. Mapping spatial frames of reference (FoRs) onto temporal relations, we obtain a taxonom…
Critical Essays
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Cultural Models Theory
Space and Culture
Giving directions is highly revealing of one's spatial competence, and it has been extensively investigated when researching universality and variation in the representation and use of spatial relationships. When giving directions in real-world situations, cultural parameters coparticipate in the production of linguistic production. This work reports about two "giving directions" tasks submitted in Tonga, Polynesia, to a number of subjects. The f…
Three Innovative Research Tools to Store, Visualize, and Analyze Data in and from the Field
In this article, the authors describe three research tools that have been prepared to store, visualize, and analyze data in and from the field. These tools are intended to be used for a research that investigates a hypothesized cultural model in Tonga, Polynesia. The three tools are (1) the Digitized Tonga database, (2) the interactive 3-D display of the island of Vava'u and the village of Houma, and (3) the Synchronized Media and Visualization A…
Cultural model theory in cognitive anthropology
Constructing the Three-Dimensional World of Speech Events
This article describes the Digitized Tonga database project, the construction of a geographically and ethnographically very detailed three-dimensional representation of Tonga, Polynesia. This digital representation creates a rich landscape for extensive and in-depth analyses of linguistic and ethnographic data. The article provides a detailed description of the process by which the two-dimensional representation created by GIS (Geographic Informa…
Linguistic Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology. Alessandro Duranti. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.398 pp
Critical Essays
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Map Drawing in Tonga, Polynesia
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 i…
Cognitive Semantics, Typology, and Culture as a Cognitive System
Toward. Cognitive Semantics, Volume 1: Concept Structuring Systems. Leonard Talmy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. 565 pp.Toward. Cognitive Semantics, Volume 2: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring.Leonard Talmy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.495 pp
Constructing the Three-Dimensional World of Speech Events
This article describes the Digitized Tonga database project, the construction of a geographically and ethnographically very detailed three-dimensional representation of Tonga, Polynesia. This digital representation creates a rich landscape for extensive and in-depth analyses of linguistic and ethnographic data. The article provides a detailed description of the process by which the two-dimensional representation created by GIS (Geographic Informa…
Three Innovative Research Tools to Store, Visualize, and Analyze Data in and from the Field
In this article, the authors describe three research tools that have been prepared to store, visualize, and analyze data in and from the field. These tools are intended to be used for a research that investigates a hypothesized cultural model in Tonga, Polynesia. The three tools are (1) the Digitized Tonga database, (2) the interactive 3-D display of the island of Vava'u and the village of Houma, and (3) the Synchronized Media and Visualization A…
The Language Revolution
Cognition, Algebra, and Culture in the Tongan Kinship Terminology
We present an algebraic account of the Tongan kinship terminology (TKT) that provides an insightful journey into the fabric of Tongan culture. We begin with the ethnographic account of a social event. e account provides us with the activities of that day and the centrality of kin relations in the event, but it does not inform us of the conceptual system that the participants bring with them. Rather, it is a slice in time of an ongoing dynamic pro…
Familiar Space in Social Memory
In this article, I present an analysis of the results of a memory task (free listing) about social relationships administered to Tongans of Polynesia. Contrary to claims by Weller and Romney (1988) and Ross (2004), the free listing activity did not yield the expected results, i.e., salient social individuals occupying positions at the top of the list. The strategy used to report the village population was prominently spatial. Besides, the analysi…
Influence Structures in a Tongan Village
Tatau, tatau pé, katoa tatau ‘the same, just the same, all the same,’ is the phrase most Tongan villagers used when asked if any person within the village groups they had just mentioned was mahu'inga taha ‘most important.’ Such forceful insistence on equality among villagers seems incongruous in the context of a monarchial political system, the Kingdom of Tonga, the only surviving Polynesian monarchy.At the head of this highly stratified society …
Temporal Frames of Reference
Despite a close correspondence between spatial and temporal cognition, empirical approaches to the two domains have used distinct theoretical conceptions: frames of reference for the former, and moving perspectives and reference-point metaphors for the latter. Our analysis reveals that these conceptions can ‐ and should ‐ be related more closely to each other. Mapping spatial frames of reference (FoRs) onto temporal relations, we obtain a taxonom…
A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology
On the Edge of the Global
Space and Culture
Giving directions is highly revealing of one's spatial competence, and it has been extensively investigated when researching universality and variation in the representation and use of spatial relationships. When giving directions in real-world situations, cultural parameters coparticipate in the production of linguistic production. This work reports about two "giving directions" tasks submitted in Tonga, Polynesia, to a number of subjects. The f…
Frames of Reference and Kinship Terminology Systems
The content of the spatial relationships module has been extensively studied and a fundamental part of such content is the concept of frame of reference; that is, a set of coordinates that generates an oriented space within which relationships between objects are established. There are three major types (and six subtypes) of frames of reference: the relative, the intrinsic, and the absolute. The content of the spatial relationships module has bee…
Cultural Models Theory
Cultural Models of Nature
Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models represent specific organizations of the etic categories underlying the concept of Nature (i.e. plants, animals, the physical environment, the weather, humans, and the supernatural). The adoption of a common methodology across th…
Disciplining Culture
Anthropology has an ambivalent relationship with its core disciplinary concept: culture. Beyond the rather vague but important notion that culture is shared and learned, there is little agreement about how to define and identify something as culture(al). In order to move beyond the "mush stage" of defining culture, we offer a disciplinary framework for considering how culture can be a collective that is individually held and used. Our emphasis is…
Language and Space
Spatial relationships are essential to the development of cognition. The empirical cross‐cultural investigation of the linguistic and mental representations of these relationships is Levinson's major contribution. He also proposes a type of linguistic relativity where a language preference for representing spatial relationships is congruent with a cognitive preference. Dasen and Mishra present a developmental approach to this issue and find cultu…
The conceptualization of nature in Tonga (Polynesia)
Cultural model theory in cognitive anthropology
The Linguistic Expression of Quality in Tongan
Cultural Model Theory is applied to the domain of quality in Tongan. Adjectives used by speakers to characterize particular nouns in free-listing tasks were compared with the set of words labeled as adjectives in Churchward's dictionary (an approximation to the total set of quality lexemes available to Tongan speakers); the free-listing results showed a greater incidence of adjectives denoting primary (intrinsic) qualities over secondary qualitie…
Using consensus analysis as a discovery and a verification procedure for cultural models
Cultural model theory and consensus analysis
Cognitive Foundations and Cultural Models
This chapter presents a coherent picture of culture as emerging from a distinctive human mind architecture. I consider the mental processes that characterize the components of mind, and the inherently constituting and structured knowledge that represents its content. Grounded in a necessary and eclectic theory of cognition, I propose that culture consists of mental models shared within a community, or cultural models. Both the undeniably universa…
Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Cognition (6 works)