THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PACIFIC STUDIES

28/1965

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

ANNUAL REPORT TO COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1964

Professors

Professorial Fallow (Anthropology)

Professorial Fellow (Linguistics)

Senior Fellow (Prehistory)

Fellows (Social Anthropology)

Research Fellows

Research Assistants

Staff

J.A. Barnes, M.A., D.Phil. W.E.H. Stanner, M.A., Ph . D. (from

July)

J.D. Freeman, Ph.D.

S.A. Wurm, Ph.D.

J. Golson, M.A.

Paula Brown, M.A., Ph.D. Marie O. Reay, M.A., Ph.D.

M.A. Jaspan, B.A., B.Sc. (until November)

R.L. Rooksby, M.A., B. Litt., Ph.D. D.C. Laycock, B.A., Ph.D. (from May) G.E.T. Wijeyewardene, B.A., M.A.,

Ph.D. (from January)

W.R. Ambrose A. Ploeg (until March) A. Brown, M.A. (until July) D. Gregory, B.Sc. H. Leach G. Winefield, B.Sc. (February­

September) M.M. van der Borght, Lie. Phil.

Litt. Ph.D. (from March) H.~. Clark, B.A. (from October) R.J. Inall (from November) C.M. Burton, B.A. (from November)

Dr Freeman returned in August from study leave in the United Kingdom. Dr Wurm visited the United States on study leave and Dr Brown went on study leave to the United States in November.

Dr W.E.H. Stanner, Reader in Comparative Social Institutions since 1949, was appointed in July to a second Chair in the Department. Mr J. Golson, Fellow, was promoted to Senior Fellow.

Student and Teaching Activities

During the year twenty students were enrolled in the Department and three other doctoral candidates whose courses had ended continued work on their theses. Two of the students were not proceeding to a doctorate in this University and one was enrolled here for a doctorate without a scholarship. One student held a grant under the Colanbo Plan and the remaining sixteen students were scholars registered for the degree -of Doctor of Philosophy. One member of the staff of the Department and one member of the staff of the S9}1ool of General Studies were enrolled in the Department as staff doctoral candidates. The Department was responsible for the academic supervision of one candidate

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enro~led in the School of Genera L Studies for the degree of Master of Arts in Archaeology. Dr Brown was responsible for the academic superviGion of two students enrol.led in the University of Cambridge and carrying out doctoral fieldwork in New Guinea.

Mrs. D.E. Barwick, whose thGsis was 2ntit~2d 'A little more than kin ~ region·11 affiliation and group identity among Aborigina l migrants in Me1bourn0', was awarded her doctorate. Mr J. R. Beckett was awarded his doctorate with a thesis entitied 'Politics in the Torres Strait Islands ' • Mr A. Healey was highly com."Tlended for his doc tora l thesis on 'The Ok language family in New Guinea'. One thesis submitted during the year was referred back for revision. At the end of the year one candidate was under examination for his doctorate.

Work in progress seminars have been carried on throughout the year in social anthropology and oociology, linguistics and prehistory. Members of the Department have participated in seminars organized by other departments.

The following students in social anthropology and sociology carried out fieldwork during the year ° C. Criper (gift exchange among the northern Chimbu, Eastern Highlands, T.P.N.G . ) / G. Francillon (southern Tetun of Indonesian Timor) : T. Hara (Mus lim kinship in rura l East Pakistan), o. van Rijswijck (rese tt lement of Kuni peoples, Central District, T.P.N.G.) 1 Cornelia H. van Nieuweohuijsen (ethnography of Suki peoples, l171Jstern Distric t, T.P.N.G.) ~ and Jan W. van Nieuwenhuijsen (ethnography of Suki peoples) •

Other students in social anthropology and sociology working in Canberra during the year were G.P. Gangu.J..y (politics of tribal separatism, Bihar, India) / M. Singarimbun (Karo Batak, north Sumatra): G.N. Appell (Rungus Dusun , Sabah), R.K. Jain (Indian estat e workers in Malaya), and I.S. Chauhan (Incian urban socia~ ~if3 in Fiji ) Mr D. de Coppet,of the University of P~ris, spent two months in Canberra between fieldwork tours on Ma~aita, British So~omon Islands Protectorate.

Mr J. Harris, of the SchooJ of General Studies, a staff doctoral candidate, carried out linguistic fieldwork in the Gulf District, T.P.N.G. N.D . Liem began a contrastive ana~ysis of English and Vietnamese , and A.H.M. Tran continued her study of phonemic problems of south Vietnamese.

Fieldwork in prehistory was carried out in Tonga by J. Poulsen, in Papua and New Guinea by J.P. t·1hi te, and in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory by C. White.

Research Programme

Professor Barnes continued work on an .::maiysis of kinship studies and prepared an article on the collection of genea~ogies. Professor Stanner continued work on a general text on 1\us tra lian Aborigines and wrote an intellectu31 profile of Radcliffe-Brown. He prepared a re-appraisal. of Durkheim's 'Elementary forms of the re ligious life '. l'"'hile on study h~ave, Dr Freeman continued his inquiry into recant work in etho~ogy and psycho-analysis in its bearing on anthropological data. He enlarged his collection of photographic materials for the s tudy of symbolism and symbo}ic behaviour. Dr Brown carried out further fieldwork among the Chimbu of New Guin~a and made a reconnaissance trip to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia to expiore research possibilities.

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Dr Reay worked o n the preparation for publ ica tion of the results of her recent researches in northern Aus tralia and t he highl ands of New Guinea, and edited a symposium on 'Aborigines now' . Mr Jaspan completed his doctoral thesis o n the Redjang of S0uth Sumatra and published other material o n thi s area . Dr Rooksby wa s in sout h India for most of the year carrying out a field s tur1y of ca8te assocL::.tions in contemporary pol itical life. Dr Vijoyewardcme comp:e t ed the initial phase of a fie.Ld inquiry into problems of economic organization a.nd kinship in northern Thailand .

Work continuad at an increased r a t e on the compi ~ation of an ethnographic bibLiography of the whole of New GuinGa, under the direction of Dr van dcr Borght. Preliminary s teps were taken towards the preparation of t he material in a publishab~e form.

Dr vurm participa t ed in the Summer Institute of t he Linguis tic Society of America at Inniana University and in other acaderaic activities in North Iunerica. He visited Brisbane t o work on l ocal Aborigina_ languages and continued his s t udies in the languages of New Guinea. Dr D C. Laycock joined the l inguistic section of the De partment and carried out fieldwork in Queens ~and as well as working on the l~nguag0n of New Guinea. HG began editing l i nguistic material co~lected many decades ago in the So lomon Is lands by R. Thu rnwa ld.

Mr Golson undertook prehistoric research in southern New South Wales and the Northern Territory. He visited Tonga, Fiji a nd New Caledonia, carrying out sBall excavations in the las t two territories in collaboration with local museum personnel. Mr Lampert directed the excavation of a cave on the coast of New South Wales .

Many members 0f all sect ion of the D'-'pa rtment took part in the admini s trative and 3cholarly ~ctivities of the ANZI'.AS Congress held in Canberra. The ~ssociation of sever al members of the D~partment wi th the Australian Institute of Aborigina l Studies continued and Insti tute fund s assisted the linguistic and prehi storic research of the Department, including the inauguration of a radio-carbon dating l aboratory, a project being undertaken in collaboration with the Department of Geophysics, Research Schoo~ of Physic~l Sciences.

Dr Fr2eman participated in the Congress of the Australian and New Zea~and College of Psychiatrists. Several members of the social anthropology and sociol0gy section of the depar tment took part in the conference organized by the Socio~ogical Assoc iation of Australia and New 6ealand, and Professor Barnes was e~ec ted President. An exhibition of texts and photographs from the R~djang of South Sumatra was arranged with materia l collected by Mr Jaspan. A photographic exhibition of Chinese archaeology was also prcsentea. The l inguistic section of the Department took part in the conference of Aus tralian l inguists organized by the Linguistic Circle of Canbe rra, and Dr Wurm serve<l as President.

Visitors to the Department during the year have inc l uded Professor R.M. Koentjaraningrat , Unive r sity o f Indonesia; Dr Margaret Mead, l\merican Museum of Natural History, Dr Sol Tax, University of Chicago (on bcha:i f of the Fenner-Gren Foundation) , and Dr E.G . Parrinder, King's Col:ieg3, London. Frofessor J.G.D. Clark, University of Cambridge, gave two lectures whi le visiting the Department .

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PUBLICATIONS 28/1965

BARNES, J.A.

'Social organization : l imits of contemporary studies'. In STANNER , N.E.H., Convener, and SHEILS, Helen, editor, Australian Aborigina l Studies. Melbourne ; Oxford University Press, Pp. 197-210, 1963.

'Discussion : physical and social facts in anthropology'. Philosophy of Science , xxx i, 294 -297.

BROWN, Paula

'Some Recent Books', Australian Te rritories iv(l) 43-5.

'Enemies and Affines' Ethnol ogy III, 335-356.

FREEMAN, Derek

Some observations in Kinship and Political Authority in Samoa, American Anthropologist, 66, 553-568.

HEALEY, Alan

Handling Unsophisticated Linguistic Informants, Linguistic Circle of Canberra Publications, Series A, Occasional papers No. 2, Canbe rra 1964 .

~elefol Phonology, Linguistic Circle of Canberra Publications, Series B, Monographs No. 3, Canberra 1964.

HEALEY, Phyllis l·L

' ' . Teleefool Quotative Cl auses , in : Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 1, Linguistic Circ l e of Canberra Publications, Series A, Occasional Papers No. 3, Canberra 1964 , Pp. 27-34 .

JASPAN, M. A.

'A Note on Enggano' Man LXIV, 109-113.

'A South Sumatran Corral' Man LXIV.

South Sumatran Folk Literature : Volume 1 - Redjang KA-GA-NGA Texts. Canberra, ~ustralian National University, 1964 .

'The Tjenderawasih State Unive rsity in West Irian', Vestes Vll 262-268.

LIEM, Nguyen Dang

'English Grammar for Vietnamese' in VAN-HOA NGUTET-SAN, or Culture, monthly r eview published by the Directorate of Cultural Dffairs, Ministry of National Education, Saigon, Vietnam Vol. xii, No. 12 Dec . 1963 pp.10.

REAY, M.

'The Social Position of Wome n', In Australian Aboriginal Studies (Oxford University Press 1963). Pp. 319-334 .

'Present-Day Politics in the New Guinea Highlands' American ~nthropologist, LXVl (4 : 2), 240-256.

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Editor Aborigines Now, Angus and Robertson, Sydney.

STANNER, W.E.H.

'On Aboriginal Religion', Oceania Monograph No. 11, 1964.

'The Dreaming : An Aboriginal World View'. In Cultural and Social Anthropology, Selected Readings, Peter B. Hammond, New York, 1964, pp. 288-298.

'Australian Aboriginal Studies'. Introduction In STANNER, W.E.H. pp. xi-xviii.

'Foreword', in Aborigines to-day (M. Reay ed.), Sydney; Angus and Robertson, pp . vii-x.

WALSH, W. P.

'Unexplained markings in Kintora and Cutta Cutta caves, Northern Territory: Australian Journal of Cave Research II.

WHITE, J. P. and WHITE, C.

'A new frontier in archaeology : rock-art in Papua-New Guinea. Illustrated London news 14 November, 775-777.

WURM, S.

'Aboriginal Languages and the Law', University of Western Australia Annual Law Review Vol. vi, 1963, pp. 1-10. Also published in the Australian Police Journal, 1964.

'Police Motu : an introduction to the Trade Language of Papua (New Guinea), for Anthropologists and other fieldworkers' with J. B. Harris, Linguistic Circle of Canberra Publications, Series B : Monographs, 1, Canberra 1963, 81 pp.

'Australian New Guinea Highlands Languages and the Distribution of their Typological Features', American Anthropologist, LXVl (4 : 2), 77-97.

'Recent Linguistic Research in Australian New Guinea', Linguistic Circle of Canberra Bulletin No. l, 1964.

'Phonological Diversification in Australian New Guinea Highlands Languages', Linguistic Circle of Canberra Publications, Series B Monographs, 2, 1964, 87 pp. 1 map.

'Aboriginal languages'. In Australian Aboriginal Studies (H. Sheils ed.). Melbourne; Oxford University Press, Pp. 127-148, 1963.