Nancy D. Munn

(PhD, Australian National 1961) Professor Emerita of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, studies exchange, cultural space and time, and symbolic analysis; she has done field research in Papua New Guinea and Australia. (Retired 6/97)
email: ndmunn@uchicago.edu

Publications:

1983 Gawan kula: Spatiotemporal control and the symbolism of influence. In E. and J. Leach, eds., The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim Exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 277-308.

1986 The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1990 Constructing regional worlds in experience: Kula exchange, witchcraft and Gawan local events. Man (n.s.) 25:1-17.

1992 The cultural anthropology of time: A critical essay. Annual Reviews in Anthropology 21:93-123.

1995 An Essay on the Symbolic Construction of Memory in the Kaluli Gisolo. In D. de Coppet and A. Iteanu, eds. Cosmos and Society in Oceania. Oxford: Berg.

1996 Excluded Spaces: The Figure in the Australian Aboriginal Landscape. Critical Inquiry 22 (Spring 1996):446-465.

2004 The 'Becoming-Past' of Places: Spacetime and Memory in Nineteenth Century Pre-Civil War New York. [2003 Westermarck Lecture]. Finnish Journal of Anthropology (in press).