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Janet Dixon Keller

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Contact Information

Department of Anthropology
607 S Mathews Ave.
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801
Professor Emerita

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor - LAS Global Studies

Highlighted Publications

BOOKS

Keller, Dr. Janet Dixon, and Mr. Takaronga Kuautonga. Nokonofo Kitea: We Keep On Living This Way. Honolulu and Adelaide: University of Hawai'i and Crawford House, 2007.

Keller, Dr. Janet Dixon, and Dr. Charles M. Keller. Cognition and Tool Use: The Blacksmith at Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Dougherty, Dr. Janet Wynne Dixon. West Futuna- Aniwa: An Introduction to the Language of a Polynesian Outlier. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983.

SHORT STORIES

Keller, Dr. Janet Dixon. "Short Stories from Small Islands." Pacific Ways, South Pacific Commission, 2005.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Keller, Dr. Janet Dixon. "Human Cognitive Ecology: An Instructive Paradigm for Comparative Primatology." American Jouornal of Primatology, vol. 62, no. 3, 2004, p. 228-240.

Keller, Dr. Janet Dixon. "Spatial Representations in Island Worlds." Pacific Linguistics, vol. 523, 2002, p. 249-260.

Keller, Dr. Janet Dixon, and Dr. Charles M. Keller. "Imagery in Traditions and Innovation." Mind, Culture, and Activity, vol. 6, no. 1, 1999, p. 3-32.

Keller, Dr. Janet Dixon, and Dr. F. K. Lehman. "Complex Categories." Cognitive Science, vol. 15, no. 2, 1991, p. 271-291.

"Subjective Society and Socially Constituted Selves." Reviews in Anthropology, vol. 16, no. 2, 1989.

"Woven World: Neotraditional Symbols of Unity in Vanuatu." Mankind, vol. 18, no. 1, 1988, p. 1-13.

Dougherty, Dr. Janet Wynne Dixon, and Dr. Charles M. Keller. "Taskonomy: A Practical Approach to Knowledge Structures." American Ethnologist, vol. 9, no. 4, 1982, p. 663-774.

"Learning Names for Plants and Plants for Names." Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 21, no. 6, 1979, p. 298-315.

"Salience and Relativity in Classification." American Ethnologist, vol. 5, no. 1, 1978, p. 55-80.

"Reduplication in West Futuna." Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 86, 1977, p. 207-221.

BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

Keller, Dr. Janet Dixon, and Dr. Charles M. Keller. "Imaging in Iron or Thought is not Inner Speech." Rethinking Linguistic Relativity, edited by Stephen Levinson, edited by John Gumperz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Keller, Dr. Janet Dixon, and Dr. F. K. Lehman. "Computational Complexity in the Cognitive Modeling of Cultural Categories." Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism, edited by Pascal Boyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Keller, Dr. Janet Dixon, and Dr. Charles M. Keller. "Thinking and Acting with Iron." Understanding Practice, edited by Jean Lave, edited by Seth Chaiklin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Dougherty, Dr. Janet Wynne Dixon, and Dr. James Fernandez. "Afterword." Symbolism and Cognition I and II, American Ethnologist, 1982.

Keller, Dr. Janet Wynne Dixon, and Dr. James Fernandez. "Introduction." Symbolism and Cognition I and II, American Ethnologist, 1981.

"On the Significance of a Sequence in the Acquisition of Basic Color Terms." Advances in the Psychology of Language: Language Development and Mother-Child Interaction, edited by R. Campbell, edited by P. Smith. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1978.

"Fasin Blong Man We I Save Plante Langwis Long Niu Hebrides." Man, Langwis mo Kastom Long Niu Hebrides, edited by D. Tryon, edited by J. Lynch. Canberra: Australia National University, 1978.

"Color Categorization in West Futunese: Variability and change." Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change, edited by Mary Sanchez, edited by Ben Blount. New York: Academic Press, 1978.

CHAPTERBOOKS

Directions in Cognitive Anthropology. Edited by Janet Dougherty, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1985.

Symbolism and Cognition II. Edited by Janet Keller, Edited by James Fernandez, Edited by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Edited by Norman Whitten, American Ethnologist, 1982.

Symbolism and Cognition I. Edited by Janet Dougherty, Edited by James Fernandex, Edited by Clark Cunningham, Edited by Norman Whitten, American Ethnologist, 1981.