Letter from A. P. Elkin to Reo Fortune, December 28, 1932
written by Adolphus Peter Elkin, 1891-1979, in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N92: Papua New Guinea, Folder 3: New Guinea. Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli. Mead and Fortune field trip, 1931-33. General correspondence) (District of Columbia) (28 December 1932) , 3 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- A three-page, typewritten letter under the letterhead of the University of Sydney, Australia, is from A. P. Elkin (Raymond Firth's successor as chairman of the anthropology department) to Reo Fortune. He begins by regretting that Fortune could not accept the teaching position initially offered by Firth. He then lays out fairly detailed information on cost and logistics if Fortune and Margaret Mead were to take up fieldwork among the Ungarinyin aborigines of Northwestern Australia, also first mentioned by Firth. Elkins also mentions the possibility of studying a tribe a bit further north about whom little is known.
- Field of Interest
- Anthropology
- Author
- Adolphus Peter Elkin, 1891-1979
- Content Type
- Letter
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 3
- Page Range
- 1-3
- Subject
- Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Field work for anthropology, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Sir Raymond Firth, 1901-2002, Reo Fortune, 1903-1979, Australian Aborigines
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural