Are Islanders Insular? A Personal View
Karen Fog Olwig
I use my personal experience as an islander doing fieldwork among islanders in the West Indies to explore meaning of “insularity.” then expand on that by drawing literary sources, particularly Homer's Odyssey and Herman Melville's Moby Dick, both which express island worldview. The worldview is contrasted compared with continental basis differing modes navigation cartography orientation defined cognitive psychologists.
Geographical Review