Ethnographer and Contrarian: Biographical and Anthropological Essays in Honour of Peter Sutton
Julie D. Finlayson, "Ethnographer and Contrarian: Biographical and Anthropological Essays in Honour of Peter Sutton"
English | ISBN: 1743057563 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1743057563 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Peter Sutton has been at various times, and sometimes simultaneously, a museum-based anthropologist with a foundational role in raising the profile of Australian Indigenous art, an anthropologist and linguist who has made significant ethnographic, analytical and theoretical contributions to both fields, and to the intersection between them, an expert on native title, and a public intellectual.
In Ethnographer and Contrarian Sutton's colleagues reflect on aspects of his life and work. The book begins with a set of biographical essays that provide an overview of Peter's life and career, including a fascinating account of his early years.
The second section focuses on his debate-changing and controversial book
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