Martha Macintyre (born 1945) is an Australian anthropologist and historian whose work has focused on studying social change in Papua New Guinea and Melanesia. As of 2021, she is an honorary professor at the

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. Born in Melbourne in 1945, Macintyre was educated at Maribyrnong High School before moving to Mac Robertson Girls' High School to complete her secondary education. She then studied history at the University of Melbourne and graduated with a BA in 1970. After that she moved to England with her husband, Stuart, where she worked for the Master of King's College,

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, cataloguing his library and studying for an MPhil in anthropology at the

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. Returning to Australia she was accepted to undertake a PhD at the Australian National University, which included field trips to Papua New Guinea. She combined her historical research skills with anthropological observations of

matrilineal kinship Matrilineality, at times called matriliny, is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which people identify with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritanc ...

. Macintyre was elected a Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society in 1989 and, following two terms as president was subsequently give honorary life membership. She also served as editor of ''The Australian Journal of Anthropology.'' She was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2012.

Selected publications

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Macintyre, Martha 1945 births Living people University of Melbourne alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Australian National University alumni Academic staff of La Trobe University Academic staff of the University of Melbourne Australian anthropologists Scientists from Melbourne People educated at Mac.Robertson Girls' High School People educated at Maribyrnong College