Lawrence, Peter, 1921-1987
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found: His The Garia, 1984:t.p. (Peter Lawrence) jkt. (M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab.); prof. of anthrop., Univ. of Sydney)
found: LC data base, 6-4-84(hdg.: Lawrence, Peter, 1921-)
found: Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania website, 22 Dec. 2014(Peter Lawrence, 1921-1987; died 12 December 1987 in Sydney, Australia; a native of Lancashire, England; he studied classics at Cambridge, and after war-time service in naval intelligence, he returned to study anthropology under Meyer Fortes; he earned his Ph.D. for research among the Garia of Papua New Guinea in 1949-50, and he visited Garialand each year since 1971; his professional career was spent in Australia, at A.N.U. (1948-57), Western Australia (1960-63), Queensland (Professor and Head, 1966-70), and Sydney (1963-65; Professor 1970-86); he was a frequent visitor to North America where he lectured widely and attended meetings of the ASAO, of which he was elected Honorary Fellow; Lawrence wrote on religion, social structure, politics and law; he maintained his interests in classics and history, and these were expressed in his "Don Juan in Melanesia"; his first and perhaps enduring passion was teaching at the Australian School of Pacific Administration (beginning in 1957) where he created the anthropology curriculum) - http://www.asao.org/pacific/honoraryf/lawrence.htm
found: Contemporary Authors online, 16 Feb. 2015(Peter Lawrence, born 11 September 1921 in Duxbury, Lancashire)
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1984-06-06: new
2015-02-17: revised
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