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The fame of GawaBook 1986 • Munn, Nancy D.
Northeastern Massim • Oceania > Melanesia
The author presents an innovative and sophisticated approach to the symbolic analysis of sociocultural systems, based on her study of the fundamental practices associated with value creation o...Constructing regional worlds in experiencearticle 1990 • Munn, Nancy D.
Northeastern Massim • Oceania > Melanesia
This article focuses on certain cultural practices "in which spatiotemporally distanced events become meaning horizons of an actor's immediate situation or 'present.'" To illustrate this conce...