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...very detailed and absolutely comprehensive picture the first 35 years of the life of the famous founding father of social anthropology. To write this authorized biography--'informally commissioned by BM's youngest daughter Helena Wayne with her sisters' approval' (p. xii)--the author 'conducted fieldwork' (p. xiv) in archives and libraries in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Europe, the U.S.A., and Mexico; moreover, Helena Wayne granted him unique access to family papers, her father's early diaries, unpublished papers and his extensive correspondence. The outcome of the author's field research is a 'bulky biography' (p. xxii), an impressive volume of 690 pages.
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