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When Professor Thomson died in May 1970 he left several manuscripts, among them this paper on ‘Marr’. The paper appears to have been written in a first draft shortly after the Second World War on the basis of fieldwork in Arnhem Land between 1935 and 1943. A copy was sent to Radcliffe‐Brown for his comments and a letter received from him in June 1948. Among other things he said of the paper, ‘It is valuable from the point of view of scientific scholarship to have some of the more significant statements in the native language. But this does make the paper difficult to read for anyone who wants only to get the general idea. I suggest that you lay the paper aside for a time and reconsider it again later on.’ The advice was taken. The paper appears to have been redrafted some time later and a copy sent to Rodney Needham who was in correspondence with Thomson on the topic of kin classification in Cape York. In June 1963 Needham wrote back urging publication. By this time, however, Thomson's interests had turned to work in the desert and he put the paper permanently aside.The paper is of interest for its detailed ethnography and as such is published for the benefit of regional specialists. Although Thomson's name is best known for his economic and ecological studies in Arnhem Land, he was deeply interested in ritual life and brought to ethnography a concern for observing behaviour that was rare in his day. In preparing the paper for publication I have mainly eliminated repetition and redundancy. The few additions I have made are indicated by square brackets.I received permission to prepare the paper for publication from Mrs Thomson while organizing the cataloguing of Thomson's ethnographic collection on a grant from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Work on the paper has been made possible by an appointment as Senior Associate in Aboriginal and Oceanic Ethnology in the Department of History in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Melbourne. I am most grateful for the help I have received from Mrs Thomson, Miss J. Wiseman, Professor G. Dening and M

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The available evidence, limited and uneven as it is, suggests that over wide areas of Australia the tame dingo was by no means an effective hunting dog and that it contributed relatively little to the Aborigines' larder. It seems that only in ecologically specialized regions where particular kinds of game were abundant (as in the tropical rain forest) was the tame dingo a significant economic adjunct to the family hunting unit. (Meggitt, 1965:24.)

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Ole Christensen, a PhD scholar in the Department of Prehistory in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University, was killed in a car accident on his way to work on 16 December last year.Ole was a Canadian citizen of Danish birth, whose parents settled in rural Alberta. He took his BA(Hons) in 1970 and his MA in 1972, both in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Calgary. His MA thesis, ‘Banff Prehistory: prehistoric subsistence and settlement in Banff National Park, Alberta’, is evidence of an early interest in economically and ecologically oriented archaeology, which he furthered by taking courses and laboratory work in pollen analysis. A visit to South America in 1970 with an archaeological team investigating early farming settlements in the Cauca Valley, Colombia, combined with a long standing interest in Polynesian anthropology to encourage him to seek to do graduate work on tropical agricultural systems somewhere in the Pacific. When he subsequently applied for the ANU scholarship which he took up in early 1972, he seemed a highly suitable person to work in association with the Department of Prehistory's project into New Guinea Highlands' agricultural history then about to start at Kuk in the upper Wahgi valley (see Mankind,3:177–83).The proposition put to Ole was that he should undertake a study of the hydraulic technology and agrarian organization of one of the large scale agricultural systems operating in drained swamp that still flourish in Irian Jaya at the Paniai (Wissel) Lakes and in the Baliem valley, to supplement the archaeological work in the Wahgi where such systems had once but no longer existed. He felt, however, that his ethnographic background was too slim and he chose instead to do work for which he was better trained, the study of resource utilization over time in a side valley off the Wahgi close to the site of the Department's swamp excavations.The beautifully designed project that he carried out is described in the following article by him. It is based on a seminar he gave at ANU shortly before his death. I should like to make two points about this project that the article does not stress. One is the wealth of plant materials recovered from the excavations by wet sieving every ounce of excavated soil, when the nearest water source was sometimes some hundreds of precipitous yards away. The abundant pandanus seeds found in all levels of the excavated sites and their change over time from thick‐walled, allegedly wild, to thin‐walled, allegedly cultivated, varieties may hold important evidence for the chronology of horticulture in New Guinea and the question of whether an independent development of plant domestication took place there.The second point I want to make is that against his expectations he found himself to be a born and insatiable ethnographic fieldworker. With his Wurup friends he surveyed and recorded all the resource zones in terms of which his selection of sites for excavation was made and took part in all the activities of food procurement and processing that were responsible for the archaeological evidence that he set out to recover and interpret.A practical man of quiet and simple tastes, he was as settled in his bush house at Wurup as in his rural retreat near Canberra. He was unassertive, tolerant and deeply sympathetic and made undemanding and unobtrusive friendships with people in both homes. He is a loss to them and to his profession. His colleagues at the University of Calgary are establishing an academic prize in his memory. To his colleagues at ANU falls the responsibility of ensuring that the important work of this promising young scholar is brought to c

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Book reviewed in this article:Contention and Dispute: Aspects of Law and Social Control in Melanesia. Edited by A. L. EpsteinThe Pacific in Transition. Geographical perspectives in adaptation and change. Edited by Harold BrookfieldMicronesia at the Crossroads: A Reappraisal of the Micronesian Dilemma. By Carl Heine.The Marquesan Journal of Edward Robarts 1797–1824. Edited by Greg Dening.Thunder from the Sea. By Willowdean Chatterson HandyMaori Death Customs. By R. S. Oppenheim, A. H. and A. W. Reed, WellingtonAborigines in the Northern Territory Cattle Industry. By Frank StevensRealities of Race. An Analysis of the Concepts of Race and Racism and their Relevance to Australian Society. By Keith R. McConnochieThe Industrialists and the Aborigines. A Study of Aboriginal Employment in the Australian Mining Industry. By Peter H. Rogers.Down Among the Wild Men. A Narrative Journey of fifteen years pursuing the Old Stone Age Aborigines of Australia. By John GreenwayTales of a Revolution. By Abu HanifahRice Farming in Taiwan: Three Village Studies. By Sung‐hsing Wang and Raymond ApthorpePiman Shamanism and Staying Sickness (Ká:cim Mûmkidag). By Donald M. Bahr, Juan Gregorio, David I. Lopez, Albert AlvarezResearch Design in Anthropology. By John A. Brim and David H. Spain. Holt, Rinehart and WinstonAn Introduction to Sociology. By J. E. Goldthorpe.Leo Frobenius‐An Anthology. Edited by Eike HaberlandField Archaeology in Britain. By John ColesDie Tasmanier; Versuch einer ethnographischhistorischen Rekonstruktion. By Gisela Völger.Archaeological Excavations of Fortified Sites on Taveuni, Fiji. By Everett Lloyd FrostEvolution of the Genus Homo. By W. HowellsFossil Man, an Evolutionary Journey. By F. E. Poirier.Perspectives on Human Evolution 2. Edited by S. L. Washburn and P. Dolhinow. Holt, Rinehart and WinstonHuman Evolution, Readings in Physical Anthropology. Edited by N. Korn. Holt, Rinehart and WinstonMan in Evolutionary Perspective. Edited by C. L. Brace and J. Metress. John Wiley and Sons.Elements of Human and Social Geography. By Eric Sunderland.The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland. By R. M.

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