Papers of Lester R. Hiatt series 5, 7, 9 and 10

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The item Papers of Lester R. Hiatt series 5, 7, 9 and 10 represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
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Summary: Series 5 Contains the original field notes from Hiatt's trips to Maningrida between 1958-60. The handwritten scattered notes deal with disputes, kinship, language, marriage, population data, religion and ritual, sexuality, sickness and sorcery, social change and racial relations and trade; Series 7 Documents the Anbarra clans from around the Kopanga Outstation region, Maningrida, in the Northern Territory. Contains shorthand notebooks and lined exercise books with notes on genealogy, word lists and language texts; an exercise notebook with handwritten diary entries from May 1958 to March 1959; and a number of carbon copy notebooks and small pocketbook notebooks which Hiatt referred to as 'checking books'; Series 9 Notes, genealogies, diaries, reports and correspondence resulting from Hiatt's work in the field, mainly in Maningrida in the Northern Territory, but also in Sri Lanka [Ceylon] and Papua New Guinea. Correspondents include John Barnes, Judith Barbour, Bill Rowe, R. Jayasuriya, Nur Yalman, Dennis McGilvray, S. Selvaratnam, and Mahen Vaithianathan; Series 10 includes some of Hiatt's earliest manuscripts dated from 1959 on diverse topics such as Coronation Hill; reproductive competition amongst Australian Aborigines; Aboriginal leadership, conflict and social control;

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Summary: Series 5 Contains the original field notes from Hiatt's trips to Maningrida between 1958-60. The handwritten scattered notes deal with disputes, kinship, language, marriage, population data, religion and ritual, sexuality, sickness and sorcery, social change and racial relations and trade; Series 7 Documents the Anbarra clans from around the Kopanga Outstation region, Maningrida, in the Northern Territory. Contains shorthand notebooks and lined exercise books with notes on genealogy, word lists and language texts; an exercise notebook with handwritten diary entries from May 1958 to March 1959; and a number of carbon copy notebooks and small pocketbook notebooks which Hiatt referred to as 'checking books'; Series 9 Notes, genealogies, diaries, reports and correspondence resulting from Hiatt's work in the field, mainly in Maningrida in the Northern Territory, but also in Sri Lanka [Ceylon] and Papua New Guinea. Correspondents include John Barnes, Judith Barbour, Bill Rowe, R. Jayasuriya, Nur Yalman, Dennis McGilvray, S. Selvaratnam, and Mahen Vaithianathan; Series 10 includes some of Hiatt's earliest manuscripts dated from 1959 on diverse topics such as Coronation Hill; reproductive competition amongst Australian Aborigines; Aboriginal leadership, conflict and social control;