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Nancy Munn

Anthropology

#1530

World Rank

#1991

Historical Rank

#686

USA Rank

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Nancy Munn's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
Bachelors Anthropology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Nancy Dorothy Munn was an American anthropologist best known for her work in space and time, value, and world-making. Munn conducted fieldwork principally on the island of Gawa in Papua New Guinea, and amongst the Walbiri in Yuendumu, Australia.

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Nancy Munn's Published Works

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The Cultural Anthropology of Time: A Critical Essay (1992) (694)
The fame of Gawa : a symbolic study of value transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) society (1989) (475)
The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (1986) (292)
Walbiri Iconography: Graphic Representation and Cultural Symbolism in a Central Australian Society (1986) (175)
Excluded Spaces: The Figure in the Australian Aboriginal Landscape (1996) (161)
CONSTRUCTING REGIONAL WORLDS IN EXPERIENCE: KULA EXCHANGE, WITCHCRAFT (1990) (91)
The Spatiotemporal Transformations of Gawa Canoes (1977) (75)
Visual Categories: An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems' (1966) (74)
Walbiri Graphic Signs: An Analysis1 (1962) (22)
The “becoming-past” of places (2013) (12)
Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, and Politics Among Western Desert Aborigines. Fred R. Myers (1987) (8)
The decline and fall of Richmond Hill: Commodification and place-change in late 18th–early 19th century New York (2013) (6)
Walbiri graphic art and sand drawing : a study in the iconography of a central Australian culture (1960) (3)
Regional Worlds/Territoriality Liffman -1- INDIGENOUS TERRITORIALITIES IN MEXICO AND COLOMBIA (2001) (2)
Ucko: Form in Indigenous Art: Schematisation in the Art of Aboriginal Australia and Prehistoric Europe (1983) (1)
Partial Connections. MARILYN STRATHERN (1994) (1)
Wow‐ipits: Eight Asmat Woodcarvers of New Guinea. Adrian A. Gerbrands (1968) (1)
ETHNOLOGY: Winbaraku and the Myth of Jarapiri. Charles P. Mountford: Rock Art of the Pilbara Region, Northwest Australia. Bruce J. Wright. Foreword by F. D. McCarthy (1969) (0)
Kula Ring, Anthropology of (2001) (0)
The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange. Janet Hoskins (1995) (0)
Ayers Rock: Its People, Their Beliefs and Their Art. Charles P. Mountford (1968) (0)
Australian Religion: An Introduction. (1973) (0)
Stories on Stone: A Book of American Epitaphs by Charles L. Wallis (1954) (0)
Review of Jens Kjaerulff. “Situating time: New technologies at work, a perspective from Alfred Gell’s oeuvre” (2020) (0)
Archeology: The Art of the Wandjina: Aboriginal Cave Paintings in Kimberley, Western Australia. I. M. CRAWFORD (1972) (0)
: Emu Ritual at Ruguri . Roger Sandall. ; Walbiri Ritual at Ngama . Roger Sandall. (1970) (0)
Guruwari Designs (2019) (0)

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University of Chicago