Correspondence from Rhoda Métraux to Margaret Mead, 1972
in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N103: Papua New Guinea, Folder 1: New Guinea. Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli. Mead and Fortune field trip, 1931-33. Postfield materials. Proposed book on Mundugumor, 1973. Notes and other reference materials #1) (District of Columbia) (1972) , 8 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- **The image(s) of the document may be omitted here because of copyright considerations** Typewritten correspondence from Rhoda Métraux to Margaret Mead, 1972. Items include a memo from Métraux to Mead, December 13, 1972, regarding the population of Biwat [Mundugumor] villages; a note (likely by Mead), March 26, 1973, regarding an item in Mead's book, 'The Mountain Arapesh;' a letter from Métraux to Mead, October 12, 1972, regarding Métraux's field work in Tambunam, East Sepik; a note from Métraux to Mead, October 13, 1972, regarding Mundugumor village populations and maps; and two copies of a map of language/tribal groups along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea, traced from Yuat Census Division, Angoram, Vol. 4, 1969-70, with some information attributed to Donald Laycock.
- Field of Interest
- Anthropology
- Content Type
- Letter
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Rhoda Métraux, 1914-2003
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 8
- Subject
- Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Census, Field work for anthropology, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, East Sepik Province, East Sepik, Margaret Mead, 1901-1978, Biwat
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, East Sepik Province