Nancy Dorothy Munn (April 13, 1931 – January 20, 2020) 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.
[2] Munn grew up near 79th St. and Madison Avenue in Yorkville, a diverse neighbourhood in Manhattan's Upper East Side, attending Public School 6.
[5] She began her teaching career in Vermont at Bennington College, and later taught the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
In 1972 while at Amherst, she joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,[6] where she worked on material from the Massim region in the Trobriand Islands.