Word: melanesia
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...Bishop was Melanesia's Walter Hubert Baddeley, now homewardbound to England after twelve years in the South Pacific. To get around his thousand-island see, he has sailed some 23,000 miles a year in his 300-ton ship, The Southern Cross...
...attack; in New Haven. He was one of the first anthropologists to study primitive societies at first hand, lived among the savages of the Trobriand Islands off New Guinea for four years, after his studies there wrote a series of books (including The Sexual Life of Savages in N.W. Melanesia) which became the most famed of his voluminous output...
...them, WPA hired John Dimmock Newsom, 46, who was born in Shanghai, brought up in France, went to Cambridge, anthropologized in Melanesia, resided in Morocco. In 1938 he became State director of the Writers' Project in Michigan. Last year he had returned to his Maryland farm when he was asked if he would try to make WPA's writers write. Soon he was doing it. Says he with an efficient snap in his voice: "This is a production unit, and it's work that counts. I've never been for art for art's sake...
...major accomplishment of the Olivers was the anthropological measurement of more than 2,000 natives taken from each of the eight main divisions of the island peoples. This was the most ambitious racial study ever undertaken in this region, which is called Melanesia...
After organization and coordination, Oliver's extensive data may go far toward answering the question of whether the interior Negro peoples of Bougainville are descendants of the original inhabitants of Melanesia...