Professor Janet Dixon Keller

Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics

Office:
Anthropology 109 Davenport Hall 607 S Mathews M/C 148 Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217)333-3529
Email: jdkeller@illinois.edu

Ph.D. Berkeley

Keller, Janet D., and Takaronga Kuautonga. Nokonofo Kitea: We Keep On Living This Way. Honolulu and Adelaide: University of Hawai'i and Crawford House, 2007.
Keller, Janet D., and Charles M. Keller. Cognition and Tool Use: The Blacksmith at Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Dougherty, Janet W. West Futuna- Aniwa: An Introduction to the Language of a Polynesian Outlier. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983.

Directions in Cognitive Anthropology. Chapter Book. Ed. Janet W. Dougherty. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1985.
Symbolism and Cognition II. Chapter Book. Ed. Janet W. Keller, James Fernandez, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, and Norman E. Whitten. American Ethnologist, 1982.
Symbolism and Cognition I. Chapter Book. Ed. Janet W. Dougherty, James Fernandex, Clark E. Cunningham, and Norman E. Whitten. American Ethnologist, 1981.

Keller, Janet D., and Charles M. Keller. "Imaging in Iron or Thought is not Inner Speech." Rethinking Linguistic Relativity. Ed. Stephen Levinson and John Gumperz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Keller, Janet D., and F. K. Lehman. "Computational Complexity in the Cognitive Modeling of Cultural Categories." Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism. Ed. Pascal Boyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Keller, Janet D., and Charles M. Keller. "Thinking and Acting with Iron." Understanding Practice. Ed. Jean Lave and Seth Chaiklin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Dougherty, Janet W., and James Fernandez. "Afterword." Afterword. Symbolism and Cognition I and II. American Ethnologist, 1982.
Keller, Janet W., and James Fernandez. "Introduction." 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. Ed. R. N. Campbell and P. T. Smith. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1978.
"Color Categorization in West Futunese: Variability and change." Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change. Ed. Mary Sanchez and Ben Blount. New York: Academic Press, 1978.
"Fasin Blong Man We I Save Plante Langwis Long Niu Hebrides." Man, Langwis mo Kastom Long Niu Hebrides. Ed. D. T. Tryon and J. D. Lynch. Canberra: Australia National University, 1978.

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

Keller, Janet D. "Human Cognitive Ecology: An Instructive Paradigm for Comparative Primatology." American Jouornal of Primatology 62.3 (2004): 228-240.
Keller, Janet D. "Spatial Representations in Island Worlds." Pacific Linguistics 523 (2002): 249-260.
Keller, Janet D., and Charles M. Keller. "Imagery in Traditions and Innovation." Mind, Culture, and Activity 6.1 (1999): 3-32.
Keller, Janet D., and F. K. Lehman. "Complex Categories." Cognitive Science 15.2 (1991): 271-291.
"Subjective Society and Socially Constituted Selves." Reviews in Anthropology 16.2 (1989):
"Woven World: Neotraditional Symbols of Unity in Vanuatu." Mankind 18.1 (1988): 1-13.
Dougherty, Janet W., and Charles M. Keller. "Taskonomy: A Practical Approach to Knowledge Structures." American Ethnologist 9.4 (1982): 663-774.
"Learning Names for Plants and Plants for Names." Anthropological Linguistics 21.6 (1979): 298-315.
"Salience and Relativity in Classification." American Ethnologist 5.1 (1978): 55-80.
"Reduplication in West Futuna." Journal of the Polynesian Society 86 (1977): 207-221.