The actual space (place) and its representation by perception and cognitive map of Eastern African pastoral peoples

本研究旨在运用地理信息科学的方法分析渡渡鸟对“地点”和“空间”的认知机制。Kawai调查了乌干达东北部的游牧民族dododo，从生态和文化人类学的角度讨论了这个问题，并指出了“地名”与他们作为牧民的游牧生活方式之间的相关性的主要规律，但这种方法是描述性的。我们将一些“他们和她的认知地图”带回研究时空认知，并从中选择了两幅地图，因为这两幅地图是由相同的信息者绘制的，并且具有相同的景观信息输入过程背景。如果在这两张地图的地理空间分析观点中发现了一些差距，我们将能够假设它一定表明在表示技术上存在一些差异。为了切实解决这一问题，应用地理信息系统（GIS）对这两幅地图进行了数字化处理。这个系统。结果表明，他们的“地点”知识通过映射转化为非几何的“空间”认知，这对他们来说是不寻常的，作为一个输出过程。例如，他们对空间的认知是基于他们的“定居点还是动物营地”的位置，“道路还是主干道”连接了这种认知，这种趋势在两幅地图上是共同的。最重要的问题是，我们对GIS认知地图的新方法产生了一些旧方法从未达到的划时代的结果。因为大多数以前的方法都是描述性的或局部的目标，尽管我们的测量或总体分析方法非常简单，我们可以坚持认为这种方法将在人类和社会科学中提供其他新的人文主义视角。

The purpose of this study is to analyze the Dodoth's cognition mechanism about their "Place" and "Space" with geographic information science. Kawai investigated the Dodoth, a pastoral people in northeastern Uganda, discussed that subject from the viewpoint of ecological and cultural anthropology, and pointed out the very principal law on the correlations between "the place names" and their nomadic life style as a pastoralist, but that approach was descriptive. Some "their and her cognitive maps" was brought back to study the spatio-temporal cognitions, then we selected two maps from them, for these were drawn by same informant and have same context about inputting process of landscape information of the Dodoth. If some gaps were discovered in the view of geo-spatial analytics on these two maps, we will be able to assume that it must have suggested that there were some differences in technique of representation. To approach this problem practically, GIS (Geographic Information System) was applied and these two maps were digitized for import into. the system.As a result, it was made clear that their "Place" knowledge converts to the non-geometrical "Space" cognition through the mapping, unusual for them, as a process of output. For example, their cognition of space was based in their" settlement or animal-camp" position, "road or main path" connected this kinds cognition, and this trend is in common with two maps. The most important issue is that our new approach to the cognitive map with GIS yielded some epochal results that some old style approach never arrived. Because most previous approaches were descriptive or local about the targets, although our metrical or total analytics were very simple in method, we may be able to insist that this approach will give the other new humanistic perspectives in human and social science.