Abstract
“BERNARD DEACON was a brilliant young ethnologist who in 1925 went out from Cambridge to study the natives of the northern New Hebrides, and particularly of the large island of Malekula. After more than a year's intensive work he fell victim to blackwater fever and died. A paper published posthumously in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (vol. 57, 1927) on “The Regulation of Marriage in Ambrym” has already marked him out as a first-class investigator from whose loss ethnology has suffered much.
Malekula: a Vanishing People in the New Hebrides.
A. Bernard Deacon Camilla H. Wedgwood. Pp. xl + 789 + 24 plates. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1934.) 42s. net.
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Malekula: a Vanishing People in the New Hebrides . Nature 134, 396–397 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134396a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134396a0
