Martha Macintyre FASSA (born 1945) is an Australian anthropologist and historian whose work has focused on studying social change in Papua New Guinea and Melanesia.
After that she moved to England with her husband, Stuart, where she worked for the Master of King's College, Edmund Leach, cataloguing his library and studying for an MPhil in anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
[1][2][3] 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.
[1] Macintyre was elected a Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society in 1989[4] and, following two terms as president[5] was subsequently give honorary life membership.