Australian National University Archives

Series440 - Marie Reay anthropology collection
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Item568a - Papers by Reay - Mainly Kuma but some Australian. Includes 'Changing authority structure in the New Guinea Highlands'; 'The blend a trifle bitter?' by F.E. Williams's'; 'The blending of cultures - Re-examined'; 'Whose estates? -Indigenous participation in tea production'; 'Aboriginal religion and art'; 'Relations between ethnic segments: A preliminary sketch (Borroloola)'; 'Totem, prude and lecher; 'Nymic patrifiliation: Some conventions of naming among the Wahgi people'; 'Land pressure and agnatic vaules in the New Guinea Highlands'; 'Permanent bachelorhood (Kuma) and land shortage (Enga)'; 'Understanding the academic animal' by a British social anthropologist.
Item569 - Paper - Chapter 13 'Abstinence, excess and opportunity: Minj 1963-1980
Item569a - Papers relating to Kuma - kinship and politics.
Item569b - Draft notes relating to kinship and politics among the Kuma.
Item570 - Reay Essays and Articles - 'Horizontal partition, segmentation, rank and the typology of agnatic descent groups: The Manam case'; 'A.P. Elkin (1891-1979) and Anthropology; Abstinence, excess and opportunity: Minj 1963-1980'; 'Minj District declared a fighting zone'; 'In the service of God and the nuclear family'; The magico-religious foundations of New Guinea Highlands warfare'.
Item571 - Folder labelled 'kinship'. Contains, drafts and published versions of academic papers by Reay. Including, 'The rule of exogamy in volatile groups: some comments on Minj-Wahgi (Kuma) marriage', 1971; 'A decision as narrative', 1970; 'Generating political conflict: Some consequences of economic exploitation of the New Guinea highlands', 1973-1974; 'When a group of men takes a husband: A review article', 1975-1976; 'The Kuma', 1967; 'Mushroom madness in the New Guinea highlands', 1961; 'Subsections at Borroloola', 1963; 'Lawlessness in the Papua New Guinea Highlands', c. 1982; 'Abstinence, excess an opportunity: Minj 1963-1980', c. 1983; 'Politics, development, and women in the rural highlands', 1975; 'The Olu bus movement', c. 1979.
Item572 - Copies of papers by Reay. Includes, 'Women in transitional society'; 'Structural co-variants of land shortage among patrilineal peoples', 1967; 'Generating political conflict: Some consequences of economic exploitation of the New Guinea Highlands,' 1973-1974; 'The politics of witch killing'; 'An election as a unit of diachronic structural analysis', May 1968; 'Beyond Democracy: Avoiding the gamble of the ballot box in an emergent nation (New Guinea); 'The rule of exogamy in volatile groups: Some comments on Minj-Waghi (Kuma) marriage,' Aug 1971.
Item573 - Journal articles by Reay: Abstinence, Excess and Opportunity: Min 1963-1980 in "Through a glass darkly: beer and modernization in Papua New Guinea", Ed. Mac Marshall; Generating Political Conflict: Some Consequences of Economic Exploitation of the New Guinea Highlands, "Anthropological fourm" Vol III, Nos 3-4, 1973-74; The Politics of a Witch Killing, "Oceania" XLVII No. 1, Sept, 1976; When a Group of Men Takes a Husband: A Review Article, "Anthropological Forum", 1975-76, Vol. IV, No. 1; Structural Covariants of Land Shortage Among Patrilineal Peoples, "Anthropological Forum", 1967, Vol II No. 1; Politics, Development and Women in the Rural Highlands in " Administration for Development";Ritual madness observed: a discarded pattern of fate in Papua New Guinea, "The Journal of Pacific History", Vol XII, 1977
Item574 - Published papers on Papua New Guinea by Reay; When a Group of Men Takes a Husband: A Review Article, 1975-76; Chpt 13, Abstinence, Excess and Opportunity: Minj 1963-1980; Laying Down the Law in Their Own Fashion; Changing Conventions of Dispute Settlement in the Minj Area; Oral Prehistory and the Sequence of Events; Lawlessness in the Papua New Guinea Highlands; Seeing Things in Their True Colours; Chpt 5, Of Ghosts and Gargoyles: The Pragmatic Architecture of Kuma Ritual; Chpt 5, An Innocent in the Garden of Eden (2 copies); The Magico-Religious Foundations of New Guinea Highlands Warfare
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Reports

Reay Essays and Articles - 'Horizontal partition, segmentation, rank and the typology of agnatic descent groups: The Manam case'; 'A.P. Elkin (1891-1979) and Anthropology; Abstinence, excess and opportunity: Minj 1963-1980'; 'Minj District declared a fighting zone'; 'In the service of God and the nuclear family'; The magico-religious foundations of New Guinea Highlands warfare'.