The present work explores the link between navigational processes and the experience of place by considering the case of Evenki reindeer herders and hunters. Our analysis shows how the idiosyncratic wayfinding methods of the Evenki result in a unique experience of place – a case that elucidates the important question of the impact of navigational processes on environmental experience, and that advances the debate between mental map theory and practical mastery theory in anthropology. We defend that their wayfinding methods – involving a particular gait, path networks, and vast hydrological and toponymical knowledge – allow the Evenki to navigate without a need for integrating egocentric and allocentric frames of reference. As a result, the Evenki experience themselves as free individuals moving through an environment that is alive and rife with possibility. This analysis reveals the ways in which wayfinding processes relying predominantly on route knowledge – as opposed to survey knowledge – affect environmental experience. Alternative methods of wayfinding can be seen as a form of resistance to the uniformisation of landscapes, and as a way of embracing the heterogeneity of space.

目前的工作通过考虑鄂温克驯鹿牧民和猎人的案例，探讨了导航过程与地方体验之间的联系。我们的分析表明，鄂温克人独特的寻路方法如何带来独特的场所体验——这个案例阐明了导航过程对环境体验影响的重要问题，并推动了心理地图理论与实践掌握理论之间的争论。人类学。我们认为，他们的寻路方法——涉及特定的步态、路径网络以及大量的水文和地名知识——使鄂温克人能够在不需要整合自我中心和非中心参考系的情况下进行导航。因此，鄂温克人体验到自己是一个自由的个体，在一个生机勃勃、充满可能性的环境中行走。该分析揭示了主要依赖于路线知识（而不是调查知识）的寻路过程如何影响环境体验。寻路的替代方法可以被视为对景观统一化的一种抵制形式，也是拥抱空间异质性的一种方式。