Body and Mind in the Trobriand Islands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2474584 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gunter Senft (Max Planck Society, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-104 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/eth.1998.26.1.73 |
| OpenAlex | W2018268385 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article discusses how the Trobriand Islanders speak about body and mind. It addresses the following questions: do the linguistic data fit into theories about lexical universals of body-part terminology? Can we make inferences about the Trobrianders' conceptualization of psychological and physical states on the basis of these data? If a Trobriand Islander sees these idioms as external manifestations of inner states, then can we interpret them as a kind of ethnopsychological theory about the body and its role for emotions, knowledge, thought, memory, and so on? Can these idioms be understood as representation of Trobriand ethnopsychological theory
Cognitive science · Conceptualization · Epistemology · Linguistics · Mind–body problem · Problem of universals · Representation (politics) · Terminology · Categorization, perception, and language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2018 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |