Lawrence, Peter, 1921-1987

LC control no.	n 84081092
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Lawrence, Peter, 1921-1987 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Great Britain Australia Papua New Guinea
Birth date	19210911
Death date	19871212
Place of birth	Lancashire (England)
Place of death	Sydney (N.S.W.)
Field of activity	Anthropology Ethnology Garia (Papua New Guinean people)
Affiliation	University of Sydney Australian School of Pacific Administration
Profession or occupation	College teachers Anthropologists Ethnologists
Found in	His The Garia, 1984: t.p. (Peter Lawrence) jkt. (M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab.); prof. of anthrop., Univ. of Sydney) LC data base, 6-4-84 (hdg.: Lawrence, Peter, 1921-) 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> Contemporary Authors online, 16 Feb. 2015 (Peter Lawrence, born 11 September 1921 in Duxbury, Lancashire)
Associated language	eng