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AU ANUA 56
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- 1982 (Creation)
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0.2 m (1 type 1 box)
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Biographical history
Roger Martin Keesing taught in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. He received his MA (1963) and PhD (1965) at Harvard University before teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was offered Chair of Anthropology, Institute of Advanced Studies at the ANU from1974, holding this position until 1990 when he took up a Professorship of Anthropology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Keesing conducted fieldwork among the Kwaio people of the Solomon Islands over some thirty years. He died on 7 May 1993 in Toronto.
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This series includes an outline of the course 'Kinship and Social Organisation' which Professor Keesing taught in The Faculties, tutorial topics and reading lists, and copies of lectures which were available for short-term loan from the Chifley Library.
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Prepared by Maggie Shapley on 14 September 2007