Academy Fellow

Dr Peter Sutton has worked as a linguist since 1969 and as an anthropologist since 1976. He has assisted with over eighty Aboriginal land claims since 1979 and carried out other applied anthropological research, while continuing his academic research and writing, with a focus on the Wik people of Aurukun, Cape York Peninsula. His current research topics include the biography of anthropologist Ursula McConnel (1888-1957).

Sutton, Peter, and Keryn Walshe 2021. Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Sutton, Peter, and Ken Hale 2021. Linguistic Organisation and Native Title: The Wik Case, Australia. Canberra: Asia Pacific Linguistics. http://doi.org/10.22459/LONT.2021

• Sutton, Peter, and Michael Snow (2015). Iridescence: The Play of Colours. Melbourne: Thames & Hudson.
• Peter Sutton (2009) The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
• Peter Sutton (2008) Stanner's veil: transcendence and the limits of scientific inquiry, In An Appreciation of Difference: WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia. Melinda Hinkson and Jeremy Beckett (eds.). Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
• Peter Sutton & Harold Koch (2008) Australian languages: a singular vision, Journal of Linguistics 44:471-504.
• Peter Sutton (2008) Stories about feeling: Dutch-Australian contact in Cape York Peninsula, 1606-1756, In Strangers on the Shore: Early Coastal Contacts in Australia pp35-59. Peter Veth, Peter Sutton and Margo Neale (eds.). Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press.
• Peter Sutton (2005) Science and sensibility on a foul frontier. Flinders Island, 1935, In Donald Thomson: the Man and Scholar, pp143-158. Bruce Rigsby & Nicolas Peterson (eds.). Canberra: The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.