Marie Reay

Marie Olive Reay FASSA (1922 in Maitland, NSW – 2004 in Booragul, NSW) was an Australian anthropologist, known particularly for work in the New Guinea Highlands.

Career

Reay did undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney, taking anthropology after hearing after hearing A. P. Elkin debate the philosopher John Anderson. Reay went on to study under Elkin, who directed her to do fieldwork among fringe-dwelling Aboriginal people in north-western NSW. She did six-month stints of fieldwork at Walgett, Bourke, Moree, Coonabarabran and other communities.[1]

She joined the Australian National University in 1959 and worked there until she retired in 1988.[1]

Reay was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1977.[2]

Ten years after her death ANU Press published her 1965 manuscript, Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society, with an introduction by Marilyn Strathern.[3]

Selected publications
  • Reay, Marie (1959), "The Kuma": Freedom and conformity in the New Guinea highlands, Melbourne University Press on behalf of the Australian National University
  • Reay, Marie, ed. (1964), Aborigines Now: New perspective in the study of Aboriginal communities, Angus & Robertson
  • Reay, Marie Olive (2014), Merlan, Francesca (ed.), Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society, ANU Press, ISBN 978-1-925022-15-5

References
  1. Harrison, Sharon. "Reay, Marie Olive (1922 - 2004)". THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN & LEADERSHIP IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUSTRALIA. Australian Women's Register.
  2. "Academy Fellow – Dr Marie Reay FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  3. Reay, Marie, 1922-2004; Merlahn, Francesca; Strathern, Marilyn; Australian National University (2014), Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society : women's lives in the Wahgi Valley / by Marie Olive Reay ; edited by Francesca Merlan ; with additional introduction by Marilyn Strathern, ANU Press, ISBN 9781925022162CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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