The Beyer Collection : with reference to the Philippine Ethnographic Series

Abstract

The Beyer Collection is an extensive library and accumulation of anthropological materials on Philippine culture and history. It was collected and assembled by Professor Henry Otley Beyer, American anthropologist and an eminent Filipiniana collector, during his more than half century of residence in the Philippines. In 1972, the National Library of Australia acquired a valuable portion of the Beyer Collection, his library. The present thesis has two parts. The first part of the dissertation provides an assessment of the life and career of Beyer, his intellectual outlook, and contributions to Philippine studies with special reference to the Philippine Ethnographic Series. The second part, which forms the bulk of the study, is a detailed survey of the eighteen sets constituting the Philippine Ethnographic Series. The Series represents the core of the Beyer library, and is a rich deposit of original source materials and references, many of which are not available elsewhere. Show more