Physician and anthropologist. Took part in the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits in 1898. Worked with A M Hocart in Melanesia. Published `History of Melanesian Society' in 1914. President of Royal Anthropological Institute from 1921 until his death.
Rivers, William Halse Rivers, 1864-1922
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Manuscript
Torres Straits papers
Date: 1891-1929
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2731
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Manuscript
Torres Straits papers
Date: 1888-1935
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2732
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
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Off-prints of publications not by Haddon
Date: 1891-1930
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2759
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Manuscript
Torres Straits papers
Date: 1888-1934
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2734
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
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Torres Straits papers
Date: 1889-1906
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2735
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Manuscript
Torres Straits papers
Date: 1880-1906
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2737
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
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Offprints and other printed matter
Date: 1917-1977
From: Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11782-12
Description: Off-prints of articles from various periodicals. Include 'On joking relationships' by A R Radcliffe-Brown (1937), 'The Government of subject peoples' by W H R Rivers (1917), 'Potlatch and Hakiri, an anaalysis of Maori society in terms of the potlatch model' by Paula G Rubel and Abraham Rosman (1971), 'Enemies and affines' by Paula Brown (1964), 'Rituals of rebellion in South-East Africa' by Max Gluckman (1952), 'Doctor Bromilow and the Bwaidoka wars' by Michael W Young (1977), 'Kuru in the New Guinea highlands' by D C Gajdusek (1973). Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Inward correspondence - P-S
Date: 1914-1930
From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0072-05
Description: Includes letters from Stephenson Percy Smith discussing his contact with Whatahoro Jury and the supposed pre-Maori occupation of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
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W H R Rivers : Papers
Date: 1901-1922
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
By: Rivers, William Halse Rivers, 1864-1922
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2619-2625
Description: Comprise notes, notebooks, drafts of articles, correspondence, drawings and press cuttings relating to Rivers' work as an anthropologist in the Melanesian regions of the Pacific Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 7 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.