Martha Macintyre | |
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Born | 1945 (age 78–79) |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Melbourne University of Cambridge |
Alma mater | Australian National University |
Thesis | Changing paths: An historical ethnography of the traders of Tubetube (1983) |
Influences | Roger Keesing Michael Young |
Academic work | |
Institutions | La Trobe University University of Melbourne |
Martha Macintyre FASSA (born 1945) is an Australian anthropologist and historian whose work has focused on studying social change in Papua New Guinea and Melanesia. As of 2021,she is an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne.
Born in Melbourne in 1945,Macintyre was educated at Maribyrnong High School before moving to Mac Robertson Girls' High School to complete her secondary education. She then studied history at the University of Melbourne and graduated with a BA in 1970. After that she moved to England with her husband,Stuart,where she worked for the Master of King's College,Edmund Leach,cataloguing his library and studying for an MPhil in anthropology at the University of Cambridge. [1] [2] [3]
Returning to Australia she was accepted to undertake a PhD at the Australian National University,which included field trips to Papua New Guinea. She combined her historical research skills with anthropological observations of matrilineal kinship. [1]
Macintyre was elected a Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society in 1989 [4] and,following two terms as president [5] was subsequently give honorary life membership. [6] She also served as editor of The Australian Journal of Anthropology. [5]
She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2012. [7]
Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to the Fiji Islands in the east, and includes the Arafura Sea.
The Lapita culture is the name given to a Neolithic Austronesian people and their distinct material culture, who settled Island Melanesia via a seaborne migration at around 1600 to 500 BCE. The Lapita people are believed to have originated from the northern Philippines, either directly, via the Mariana Islands, or both. They were notable for their distinctive geometric designs on dentate-stamped pottery, which closely resemble the pottery recovered from the Nagsabaran archaeological site in northern Luzon. The Lapita intermarried with the Papuan populations to various degrees, and are the direct ancestors of the Austronesian peoples of Polynesia, eastern Micronesia, and Island Melanesia.
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Stuart Forbes Macintyre was an Australian historian, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne from 1999 to 2008. He was voted one of Australia's most influential historians.
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