Peter Sutton (anthropologist)
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Peter Sutton FASSA (born 1946) is an Australian social anthropologist and linguist who has, since 1969, contributed to: recording Australian Aboriginal languages;[1][2][3] promoting Australian Aboriginal art;[4][5] mapping Australian Aboriginal cultural landscapes;[6][7] and increasing societies' general understanding of contemporary Australian Aboriginal social structures[8][9] and systems of land tenure.[10][11][12][13][14] In 1976 Isobel Wolmby and her husband of the Wik peoples adopted Sutton as their tribal son.
Peter Sutton | |
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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 Humanities; University of Adelaide Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Adelaide |
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. In 2003-2009 he was an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.[15]