Peter Lawrence

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Peter Lawrence

Peter Lawrence is affiliated with the following schools: University of South Carolina, University of Queensland, University of Sydney, University of Melbourne, Australian National University, University of Western Australia

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Peter Lawrence

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Cultural Anthropology

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PhD Anthropology University of Melbourne

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Lawrence was a British-born Australian anthropologist and pioneer in the study of Melanesian religions. Lawrence was born in Lancashire, and read classics at the University of Cambridge. Between 1942 and 1946 he served in the Royal Navy before returning to Cambridge at the end of World War II. He conducted his first fieldwork among the Garia people in southern Madang Province, Papua New Guinea in 1949–1950. Supervised by Meyer Fortes, he received his PhD in 1951 with a thesis entitled "Social structure and the process of social control among the Garia, Madang District, New Guinea".

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Peter Lawrence 's Published Works

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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (1948) (260)
Road Belong Cargo: A Study of the Cargo Movement in the Southern Madang District, New Guinea (1964) (155)
A Price to Pay? Professionalism and Work Organization in Britain and West Germany (1983) (81)
Gods Ghosts and Men in Melanesia (1985) (32)
At Home (1979) (29)
New Zealand region, bathymetry (1967) (27)
Professionalism and Rationality: A Study in Misapprehension (1991) (22)
The Garia: An ethnography of a traditional cosmic system in Papua New Guinea (1955) (22)
Transcribe: A Comprehensive Autotranscription Program (1993) (20)
Gods ghosts and men in Melanesia : some religions of Australian New Guinea and the New Hebrides (1966) (19)
Studies in New Guinea land tenure (1967) (17)
Politics in New Guinea;: Traditional and in the context of change, some anthropological perspectives (1971) (15)
LUTHERAN MISSION INFLUENCE ON MADANG SOCIETIES (1956) (14)
United Kingdom Digital Marine Atlas (1993) (10)
The Garia: An Ethnography of a Traditional Cosmic System in Papua New Guinea. (1985) (10)
TWENTY YEARS AFTER: A RECONSIDERATION OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA SEABOARD AND HIGHLANDS RELIGIONS (1988) (6)
The Garia of the Madang district 1 (1965) (6)
Things Maps Don't Tell Us (1994) (5)
Professionalism and Work Organisation: Reply to McCormick (1986) (3)
Studies in New Guinea land tenure : three papers (1967) (3)
The Beginnings of European Colonialism: A Review Article (1980) (3)
Politics in New Guinea: Traditional and in the Context of Change: Some Anthropological Perspectives. (1973) (1)
Don Juan in Melanesia (1967) (1)
Daughter of time (1968) (1)
Reo Franklin Fortune (1980) (1)
SOME PROBLEMS OF ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA1 (1961) (1)
Social anthropology and the training of administration officers at the Australian school of pacific administration (1964) (1)
Ivan Reid, Social Class Differences in Britain , Open Books, London, 1977. xi + 266 pp. £5.75, paper £2.95. (1978) (0)
Papua New Guinea's colonial experience: The first seventy years [Book Review] (1978) (0)
Gods Ghosts and Men in Melanesia.@@@The New Guinea Villager.@@@Justice Versus Sorcery. (1966) (0)
The beginnings of European colonialism (1980) (0)
Henry and New Guinea (1985) (0)
Controlling Guinea grass. (1985) (0)
The lucky colony (1985) (0)
The greening of the Aborigines (1986) (0)
Multi access radio in New Zealand (1990) (0)
Certification: the time is now. (1977) (0)
Montevideo program sets environmental law agenda (1991) (0)
Increase in Subscription (1979) (0)
Seeing the light (1993) (0)
Manufacturing or Services After 1992 (1989) (0)
Treaty and MOU Guide (TAMOUG) (1991) (0)
234 EXPCSUPE TO BENZe NEAR COKE MANUFACTURING PLANTS (1995) (0)
The Village Atlas Series (1992) (0)
Modern Papua New Guinea: Whence and whither [Book Review] (1982) (0)
Book Reviews : The Craft of Social Anthropology, A. L. Epstein (ed.), Social Science Paperbacks in association with Tavistock Publications, pp. xx + 276, stg.30s (1968) (0)
Social Class and Language Utilization at the Tertiary Level Millicent E. Poole, Queensland, University of Queensland Press, 1976, pp. 254, $A14.50 (1978) (0)
Book Reviews : Class, Codes and Control : Towards a Theory of Educational Transmissions (Vol. 3), Basil Bernstein, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975, pp. 167, $A13.00 (1976) (0)

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