Peter Sutton (anthropologist)
| Peter Sutton | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Citizenship | Australian |
| Alma mater | Monash University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Aboriginal languages, Anthropology of Aboriginal Australia |
| Institutions |
South Australian Museum's Division of Anthropology; University of Adelaide's School of Earth & Environmental Sciences |
Peter Sutton FASSA (born 1946) is an Australian social anthropologist and linguist who has, over a period of almost 40 years (since 1969), contributed to: recording Australian Aboriginal languages; promoting Australian Aboriginal art; mapping Australian Aboriginal cultural landscapes; and increasing societies' general understanding of contemporary Australian Aboriginal social structures and systems of land tenure.
Most recently, Peter Sutton has shifted his anthropological focus away from Aboriginal Australian subjects themselves, and more towards the nature and effect of the public policy that has governed those Aboriginal Australians over the 40 years he has been conducting anthropological research:
"Through personal observation, forensic rigour and an anthropologist's eye, he questions the foundations on which 40 years of public policy, often imposed with bipartisan goodwill, has been constructed"
In 2004–2008 Sutton held an Australian Research Council (ARC) Professorial Fellowship at the University of Adelaide's School of Earth & Environmental Sciences and within the South Australian Museum's Division of Anthropology. His project title was "Cape Keerweer 1606-2006: an ethnographic history of the Wik region, Queensland". He was also, recently, an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Born in Melbourne in 1946, Peter Sutton's earliest years were spent growing up in a Port Melbourne working class environment His paternal grandfather was a driver at the local fish markets (and prone to violent, alcoholic outbursts). His paternal grandmother worked in the Swallow and Ariel Biscuits Factory. His maternal grandfather was a pastry cook, and his father was a factory worker (and later a salesman).
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