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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 on Gawa, largest of the Marshall Bennett Islands of Papua N...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 concept the author uses a single case derived from an interisla...