Keesing, Roger M., 1935-....

American cultural and linguistic anthropologist, Roger Martin Keesing was born in Hawaii in 1935 and received his M.A. (1963) and Ph.D (1965) from Harvard University. During the early 1960s, Keesing conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands with the Kwaio people and returned regularly over the next two decades to continue his studies. He published extensively on Kwaio culture history and language including Melanesian pidgin and the oceanic substrate (1988) and co-authored Lightning meets the west wind: the Malaita massacre (1980) with Peter Corris. Keesing taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1965-1974); the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University (1974-1990); and McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1990-1993). Keesing died in Toronto, Canada, in 1993.

From the description of Roger Keesing papers, 1962-1993. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 37991335

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