Anggor Floods

Reflections on Ethnogeography and Mental Maps

Bibliographic Data

ID4488700
AuthorsPeter B Huber (corresponding author)
Year1979
Volume69
Issue2
Pages127
Publication date1979-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/214960
OpenAlexW2317445777
LanguageEN
Citations received7

rT HE aim of this paper is to provide an anthropological commentary on a certain genre of geographical analysis that includes studies of mental maps, spatial images, cognitive environments, and similar notional constructs. These analyses have a common object in what Peter Gould has felicitously termed the topography. While such topographies differentiate, organize, or contour landscapes in socially or culturally significant ways, they are hidden in people's minds. The problem that they pose for analysis is one familiar to anthropologists: discovering and describing the characteristic way in which a people encounter a phenomenon.' In this study, the phenomenon is a place to which the lives and thoughts of the group members have constant reference

Cartography · Geography · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Geology

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