Northern Illinois University
Department of Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Publications

Books

• Bennardo, Giovanni (Editor) (2019). Cultural Models of Nature: Primary Food Producers and Climate Change. Abingdon, UK Routledge.
• Bennardo, Giovanni and Victor de Munck. Cultural Models: Genesis, Typology, and Experiences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Bennardo, Giovanni et al. (Editors) (2011). A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2009). Language, Space, and Social Relationships: A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (Editor). Representing Space in Oceania: Culture in Language and Mind. Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2002.

• Bennardo, Giovanni (2000). A Conceptual Analysis of Tongan Spatial Nouns: From Grammar to Mind. Languages of the World, 12. Munich, Germany: Lincom Europa.

Special Issues of Journals

• Bennardo, Giovanni and Victor C. de Munck (Editors) (2020). Cultural Model Theory in Cognitive Anthropology: Recent Developments and Applications. Special Issue of Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 4, 1. (Includes Introduction)
• Bennardo, Giovanni (Editor) (2017). Primary Food Producers, Climate Change, and Cultural Models of Nature. Special Issue of World Cultures, 22, 2. (Includes Introduction)

Proceedings

• Bennardo, Giovanni (Editor) (2015). Proceedings of Workshop: Local Knowledge and Climate Change: Fieldwork Experience. Working paper # 3. DeKalb IL.: ESE, NIU.
• Bennardo, Giovanni, (Editor) (2012). Proceedings of Workshop: Cultural Models of Nature and the Environment: Self, Space, and Causality. Working Paper #1. DeKalb, IL.: ESE, NIU.

Articles

• Bennardo, Giovanni (2020). The Conceptualization of Nature in Tonga (Polynesia): Cultural Model Theory and its Methodological Path. In G. Bennardo and V. C. de Munck. (Eds.). Cultural Model Theory in Cognitive Anthropology: Recent Developments and Applications. Special issue of Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 4, 1: pp. 13-30. DOI 10.1007/s41809-020-00054-5.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2019). Disciplining Culture: A Sociocognitive Approach. Current Anthropology, 60, 2: 174-193. (with Victor de Munck, SUNY, New Paltz)

• Bennardo, Giovanni (2018). Space in Kinship. Current Anthropology, 59, 2.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2018). Cultural Models Theory. Anthropology News, 60, 3.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2017). The Moon Makes Yams Grow: Tongans (Polynesians) and Nature. In G. Bennardo (Ed.). Primary Food Producers, Climate Change, and Cultural Models of Nature. Special Issue of World Cultures, 22, 2.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2017). Space in Kinship: Frames of Reference and Kinship Terminology Systems. In Structure and Dynamics, 9, 2 (special issue Back to Kinship II).
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2014). The Fundamental Role of Causal Models in Cultural Models of Nature. Frontiers in Psychology (Cognitive Science).
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2014). Space and Culture: Giving Directions in Tonga. ETHOS (Journal of the Society of Psychological Anthropology), 42, 3: 253-276.

• Bennardo, Giovanni (2014). Cognitive Anthropology’s Contributions to Cognitive Science: A Cultural Human Mind, A Methodological Trajectory, and Ethnography. TopiCS (Topics in Cognitive Science), 6, 1: 138-140.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2013). Cognitive Anthropology. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2010). Space, Kinship, and Mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 5: 382-383.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2010). Temporal Frames of Reference: A Conceptual Analysis and Empirical Evidence from English, German, and Tongan. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 10, 3-4: 283-307. (with Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller, Freiburg University, Germany).

Book Chapters

• Bennardo, Giovanni (2020). Language and Space. In James Stanlaw (Ed.). The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Oxford: Wiley.

• Bennardo, Giovanni (2019). Introduction: Cultural Models of Nature of Primary Food Producers in Communities Affected by Climate Change. In Cultural Models of Nature: Primary Food Producers and Climate Change, pp. 1-18. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2019). Cultural Models of Nature in Tonga (Polynesia). In Cultural Models of Nature: Primary Food Producers and Climate Change, pp. 38-65. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2019). Conclusion: Commonalities in Cultural Models of Nature and the Role of Space in Cognition. In Cultural Models of Nature: Primary Food Producers and Climate Change, pp. 264-284. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Bennardo, Giovanni (2018). Cultural Models in Tongan Metacognition. In J. Proust and M. Fortier (Eds.). Metacognitive Diversity: An Interdisciplinary Approach, pp. 265-293. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2017). The Fundamental Role of Causal Models in Cultural Models of Nature. In Beller S., A. Bender, and M. R. Waldmann. Diversity and Universality in Causal Cognition, pp. 411-428. Frontiers Research Topics: Frontiers Media SA.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2015). Introduction. In Proceedings of the Workshop: Local Knowledge and Climate Change: Fieldwork Experiences (pp. 1-9). Dekalb, IL.: ESE Institute (Working Paper #3)
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2015). The Moon Makes Yams Grow: Tongans (Polynesians) and Nature. In Proceedings of the Workshop: Local Knowledge and Climate Change: Fieldwork Experiences (pp. 127-141). Dekalb, IL.: ESE Institute (Working Paper #3).
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2015). Frame of Reference Preferences among Primary Food Producers across Cultures: Results of the Animals-in-a-Row Task. In Proceedings of the Workshop: Local Knowledge and Climate Change: Fieldwork Experiences (pp. 142-155). Dekalb, IL.: ESE Institute (Working Paper #3)

• Bennardo, Giovanni (2012). Space in Culture and Mind. In G. Bennardo (Ed.). Proceedings of Workshop: Cultural Models of Nature and the Environment: Self, Space, and Causality, pp. 74-76. Working Papers #1. DeKalb, IL.: ESE, NIU.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2012). Thinking about Methods for Cultural Models. In G. Bennardo (Ed.) Proceedings of Workshop: Cultural Models of Nature and the Environment: Self, Space, and Causality, pp. 84-85. Working Papers #1. DeKalb, IL.: ESE, NIU.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2011). Types of Collective Representations: Cognition, Mental Architecture, and Cultural Knowledge. In D. Kronenfeld, G. Bennardo, V. DeMunck, and M Fisher (Eds.) A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology 82-101. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Press. (with David Kronenfeld, UCR)
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2011). A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia: Monarchy, Democracy, and the Architecture of the Mind. In D. Kronenfeld, G. Bennardo, V. DeMunck, and M Fisher (Eds.). A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology 489-512. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Press.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2011). Salience of Verticality and Horizontality in American and Tongan Kinship Terminology. In Bojka Milicic and Douglas Jones (Eds.). Kinship, Language, and Prehistory: Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies, pp. 173-191 Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press. (with Dwight Read, UCLA)

Book Reviews

• Bennardo, Giovanni (2016). Articulating Rapa Nui: Polynesian Cultural Politics in a Latin American Nation-Stateby Riet Delsing. Honolulu, HI.: University of Hawai’i Press. In American Ethnologist, 43, 2.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2011). On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation by Niko Besnier, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. In Journal of Anthropological Research, 67, 3.
• Bennardo, Giovanni (2007). Marquesan: A Grammar of Space by Gabriele H. Cablitz, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. In Oceanic Linguistics, 46, 2: 618-622.

Working Paper

• Bennardo, Giovanni (2016). A Methodological Trajectory to Investigate Cultural Models: Blending Two Approaches. Dekalb, IL.: ESE Institute (Working Paper #2) (with Victor De Munck, K. Kroger, J. LoSavio, M. Rangel, and C. Valasek).