This site is intended to provide an overview of library materials, both published and unpublished, pertinent to the study of Melanesia. UCSD's collection strengths for this area include anthropology, European voyages of exploration and research, archaeology, linguistics, and history. A special emphasis is placed on collecting primary source materials: anthropologists' fieldnotes, government patrol reports, microfilms of mission records, firsthand accounts of travelers, and newspapers from the region, etc. The collection also includes many dissertations and theses.

Finding Aids for Collections in the Melanesian Archive

Akin, David Gajdusek, Carleton Ashton, Christopher Keesing, Roger Audiorecordings Knauft, Bruce M. Newspaper clippings on Papua New Guinea politics, 1970-1981 Leavitt, Stephen Ayres, Mary Clifton Layard, John Willoughby Bergmann, Wilhelm New Guinea Religions Cross-Cultural Files (Read, Kenneth E. and Watson, James B.) Cantrell, Eileen Rappaport, Roy A. Chowning, Ann Read, Kenneth E. Colebatch, Hal Roheim, Geza Cook, Edwin A. Scheffler, Harold W. Epstein,  A.L. (Arnold Leonard) & T. Scarlett Stewart, Pamela Fitzpatrick, Phil Strathern, Andrew Forge, Anthony Townsend, Patricia (not yet cataloged) Fox, Charles Elliot Watson, James B. Miscellaneous Collection (unpublished conference papers, etc. by a variety of authors)

Published Materials at UCSD