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Frances Larson: Undreamed Shores review - journeys without maps
How the first female anthropologists found freedom far from home
by Boyd TonkinTuesday, 02 March 2021
To the ends of the earth: Frances LarsonGemma Clarke
Beatrice Blackwood had lived in a clifftop village between surf and jungle on Bougainville Island, part of the Solomon archipelago in the South Pacific. She hunted, fished and grew crops with local people as she studied their social and sexual lives; she joined the men on risky forays into other communities “that had never seen a white person before, but she never recorded any animosity from them”. Later, in 1936, she relocated to the remote interior of New Guinea.