Martha Macintyre

Martha Macintyre
FASSA
Born1945 (age 79–80)
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Melbourne
University of Cambridge
Alma materAustralian National University
ThesisChanging paths: An historical ethnography of the traders of Tubetube (1983)
InfluencesRoger Keesing
Michael Young
Academic work
InstitutionsLa Trobe University
University of Melbourne

Martha Macintyre FASSA (born 1945) is an Australian anthropologist and historian whose work has focused on studying social change in Papua New Guinea and Melanesia. As of 2021, she is an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne.

Born in Melbourne in 1945, Macintyre was educated at Maribyrnong High School before moving to Mac Robertson Girls' High School to complete her secondary education. She then studied history at the University of Melbourne and graduated with a BA in 1970. After that she moved to England with her husband, Stuart, where she worked for the Master of King's College, Edmund Leach, cataloguing his library and studying for an MPhil in anthropology at the University of Cambridge.[1][2][3]

Returning to Australia she was accepted to undertake a PhD at the Australian National University, which included field trips to Papua New Guinea. She combined her historical research skills with anthropological observations of matrilineal kinship.[1]

Macintyre was elected a Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society in 1989[4] and, following two terms as president[5] was subsequently give honorary life membership.[6] She also served as editor of The Australian Journal of Anthropology.[5]

She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2012.[7]

Selected publications

  • Martha Macintyre (1983), The kula a bibliography, Cambridge Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-23203-6
  • Jolly, Margaret; Macintyre, Martha, eds. (1989), Family and gender in the Pacific : domestic contradictions and the colonial impact, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-13177-3
  • Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala; Macintyre, Martha, eds. (2006), Women miners in developing countries : pit women and others, Ashgate Pub. Company, ISBN 978-0-7546-4650-1
  • Patterson, Mary; Macintyre, Martha, eds. (2011), Managing modernity in the Western Pacific (1st ed.), UQP, ISBN 978-0-7022-3900-7
  • Biersack, Aletta; Jolly, Margaret; Macintyre, Martha, eds. (2016), Gender violence & human rights : seeking justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea & Vanuatu, ANU Press, ISBN 978-1-76046-071-6
  • Macintyre, Martha; Spark, Ceridwen, eds. (2017), Transformations of gender in Melanesia, ANU Press, ISBN 978-1-76046-089-1

References

  1. ^ a b "Macintyre, Martha". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  2. ^ Golub, Alex (2018). "Encountering Anthropology: An Interview with Martha Macintyre". ANU Press. p. 20. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  3. ^ Macintyre, Martha; Golub, Alex (January 2021). "Encountering Anthropology: An Interview with Martha Macintyre". In Bainton, Nicholas A.; McDougall, Debra; Alexeyeff, Kalissa; Cox, John (eds.). Unequal Lives. Canberra: ANU Press. doi:10.22459/UE.2020. ISBN 9781760464110.
  4. ^ "A/Prof Martha Macintyre". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Honorary Life Members". Australian Anthropological Society. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Honorary Life Members". Australian Anthropological Society. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Academy Fellow: Associate Professor Martha Macintyre AM, FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 16 October 2021.