Peter Sutton
Present position
Senior Research Fellow, University of Adelaide and South
Australian Museum
Contact: peter.sutton AT samuseum.sa.gov.au
Publications (some available online)
Books
Sutton, P. (ed.) 1976. Languages of Cape York. Canberra:
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Sutton, P. and M. Walsh 1979. Revised Linguistic Fieldwork Manual for
Australia. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Rigsby, B. and P. Sutton (eds.) 1980. Contributions to Australian
linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Jones, P. and P. Sutton 1986. Art and Land. Aboriginal Sculptures of
the Lake Eyre Region. Adelaide: South Australian Museum and Wakefield
Press.
Hercus, L. and P. Sutton (eds.) 1986. This is what Happened: Historical
Narratives by Aborigines. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal
Studies.
Anderson, Christopher, and P. Sutton (eds.) 1987. Anthropology in
South Australia. Special issue (vol. 20) of Records of the South
Australian Museum.
Sutton, P. (ed.) 1988. Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia.
New York: The Asia Society Galleries & George Braziller; Melbourne:
Viking/Penguin; [1989:] London: Viking. (2nd edn. 1989.)
Sutton, P. 1995. Wik-Ngathan Dictionary. Adelaide: Caitlin Press.
Sutton, P. 1995. Country: Aboriginal Boundaries and Land Ownership in
Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal History Monographs (ANU).
Sutton, Peter 1998. Native Title and the Descent of Rights.
Perth: National Native Title Tribunal.
Sutton, Peter 2003. Native Title in Australia: an Ethnographic
Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sutton, Peter, and Joanna Bosse 2007. Puulway: Wik and Kugu Totems.
Contemporary Australian Sculpture from Aurukun [catalogue]. Melbourne:
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi.
Veth, Peter, Peter Sutton and Margo Neale (eds) 2008. Strangers
on the Shore: Early Coastal Contacts in Australia. Canberra:
National Museum of Australia Press.
Sutton, Peter (2009). The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia
and the End of the Liberal Consensus. Melbourne: Melbourne University
Press.
Sutton, Peter 2010. Native Title in Australia: an Ethnographic
Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [new paperback edition
of 2003 hard cover book ISBN 0521011906]
Anthropological and linguistic papers
Sutton, P. 1975. How many Aboriginal languages are there? Aboriginal
News 2(1):22-23.
Sutton, P. 1976. Cape Barren English. Linguistic communications
13:61-97.
Sutton, P. 1976. The diversity of initial-dropping languages in southern
Cape York. Pp102-23 in P. Sutton (ed.) Languages of Cape York, Canberra:
AIAS.
Sutton, P. 1976. A note on Cape York laminals. Pp124-26 in P. Sutton
(ed.) Languages of Cape York, Canberra: AIAS.
Sutton, P. 1976. Gugu-Badhun and the Flinders Island language. Pp225-28
in R.M.W. Dixon (ed.) Grammatical categories in Australian languages,
Canberra: AIAS
Sutton, P. 1976. The 'having' affix and other morphemes in fifty
Australian languages. Pp297-305 in R.M.W. Dixon (ed.) Grammatical categories
in Australian languages, Canberra: AIAS.
Sutton, P. 1978. Languages. Pp48-49 in M. Hill and A. Barlow (eds.)
Black Australia: an annotated bibliography and teacher's guide to resources on
Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Canberra: AIAS.
Sutton, P. and B. Rigsby 1979. Linguistic communities and social networks
on Cape York Peninsula. Pp713-32 in S. Wurm (ed.) Australian linguistic
studies, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Sutton, P. and M. Walsh (comps.) 1979. AIAS wordlist for Australian
languages. 3 parts. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Rigsby, B. and P. Sutton 1980-82. Speech communities in Aboriginal
Australia. Anthropological Forum 5:8-23.
Sutton, P. 1982. Personal power, kin classification and speech etiquette
in Aboriginal Australia. Pp182-200 in J. Heath, F. Merlan and A. Rumsey (eds.) Languages
of kinship in Aboriginal Australia, Sydney: Oceania.
Sutton, P. 1985. Aboriginal customary marriage - determination and
definition. Aboriginal Law Bulletin 12:13-15.
Goetz, H. and P. Sutton 1986. Conflicts with Native Police: Gugu-Badhun
Story, pp205-216 in L. Hercus and P. Sutton (eds.) This is what Happened:
Historical Narratives by Aborigines. Canberra: Australian Institute of
Aboriginal Studies.
Flinders, J. and P. Sutton 1986. Land rights: Flinders Island story, pp326-330
in L. Hercus and P. Sutton (eds.) This is what happened: Historical
narratives by Aborigines. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal
Studies.
Sutton, P. 1986. Anthropological history and the South Australian
Museum. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1986/1:45-51.
Sutton, P. 1986. The sculpted word: a reply to Donald Brook on toas. The
Adelaide Review 32:8-9, 36-7.
Sutton, P. 1987. The really interesting suggestion...: Yet another reply
to Donald Brook on toas. The Adelaide Review 35:5.
Sutton, P. 1987. The Wik people. Pp36-7 in JCR Camm & J McQuilton
(eds) Australians: A historical atlas. Sydney:Fairfax, Syme & Weldon
Associates.
Sutton, P. 1987. Mystery and change. Pp77-96 in M. Clunies Ross, T.
Donaldson and S. Wild (eds), Songs of Aboriginal Australia. Sydney:
Oceania Monographs.
Chase, A.K. and P. Sutton 1987. Australian Aborigines in a rich
environment. Pp68-95 in W.H. Edwards (ed.) Traditional Aboriginal Society: A
Reader. Melbourne: Macmillan (Revised version of Chase & Sutton 1981).
Anderson, C. and P. Sutton 1987. Introduction: Anthropology in South
Australia. Pp1-3 in Anderson & Sutton eds., [see books above]
Sutton, P. 1988. Myth as history, history as myth. Pp251-268 In Ian Keen
(ed.), Being Black. Aboriginal cultures in 'settled' Australia.
Canberra: AIAS.
Sutton, P. and Christopher Anderson 1988. Introduction. Pp1-12 in Sutton
(ed.) 1988 [see books above].
Sutton, P. 1988. Dreamings. Pp13-32 in Sutton (ed.) 1988 [see books
above].
Sutton, P. 1988. Dreamings. [Chapter 1 of Sutton (ed.) 1988, see books
above]. Terra [Los Angeles] 27(5-6):8-16.
Sutton, P. 1988. Responding to Aboriginal art. Pp33-58 in Sutton (ed.)
1988
[see books above].
Sutton, P. 1988. The morphology of feeling. Pp59-88 in Sutton (ed.) 1988
[see
books above].
Sutton, P., P. Jones & S. Hemming 1988. Survival, regeneration and
impact. Pp180-212 in Sutton (ed.) 1988 [see books above].
Sutton, P. 1989. Bush culture. In Heidelberg and Heritage
[exhibition catalogue], Melbourne: The Wilderness Society.
Sutton, P. 1989. Postvocalic R in an Australian English dialect. Australian
Journal of Linguistics 9:161-163.
Wolmby, I, N. Peemuggina and P. Sutton 1990. Donald Thomson at Cape
Keerweer. Pp271-82 in P. Austin, R.M.W. Dixon, T. Dutton & I. White (eds), Language
and history: essays in honour of Luise A. Hercus. Canberra: Pacific
Linguistics.
Sutton, P. 1990. Comments on B.M.J. Huchet, The identification of
cicatrices depicted on anthropomorphs in the Laura region, north Queensland, Rock
Art Research 7(1):36.
Sutton P. 1991. Language in Aboriginal Australia: social dialects in a
geographic idiom. Pp49-66 in S. Romaine (ed.), Language in Australia,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sutton, Peter 1991. Bark painting by Angus Namponan of Aurukun. Memoirs
of the Queensland Museum 30:589-598.
Sutton, P. 1991. Unintended consequences. The Interior
1(2):24-29.
Sutton, P. 1991. Le grand rêve: une vision australienne du monde. Cahiers de
Géopoétique 2:27-38. (Translation and adaptation of Chapters 1 & 2 of Sutton
ed. 1988, Dreamings.)
Sutton, P. 1992. Reading 'Aboriginal art'. Australian Cultural
History 11:28-38.
Sutton,
P. 1992. Aboriginal art, the nation
state, suburbia. Artlink 12(3):6-8.
Sutton, P. 1992. L'art et la terre dans la culture des aborigènes
australiens. Pp45-55 in Cahiers de Géopoétique (série colloques): Géographie
de la culture: espace, existence, expression, Colloque de Nîmes, Octobre
1991.
Sutton, P. 1992. Last chance operations: 'BIITL' research in far north
Queensland in the 1970s. Pp451-458 in T. Dutton, M. Ross, & D. Tryon (eds),
The language game: papers in memory of Donald C. Laycock, Canberra: Pacific
Linguistics.
Sutton, P. 1994. Dreamings. [Danish translation of Chapter 1 of Sutton
(ed.) 1988 [see books above]. Pp6-10 in S. Laursen, K. Kjeldsen & H.A..Buch (eds.)
Aratjara:
Kunst af de oprindelige australiere, = Louisiana Revy 34(2) March 1994.
Sutton, P. 1994. Material culture traditions of the Wik people, Cape
York Peninsula. Records of the South Australian Museum 27:31-52.
Sutton, P. 1994. Language [in traditional Aboriginal society]. Pp73-75
in S. Bambrick (ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Sutton, P. 1994. Discussion. Pp28-30 in M. Edmunds (ed.), Claims to
knowledge, claims to country: native title, native title claims and the role of
the anthropologist. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Studies (Native Titles Research Unit).
Sutton, P. 1994. Clan estates and languages (map). P78 in Göran
Burenhult (ed), Traditional peoples today: continuity and change in the
modern world, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.
Sutton, P. 1996. The Robustness of Aboriginal Land Tenure Systems:
Underlying and Proximate Customary Titles. Oceania 67:7-29.
Sutton, P. 1996. Aboriginal Australia: Sculpture. In Jane Turner (ed) Dictionary
of Art, Vol 1 pp42-44. London: Macmillan.
Sutton, P. 1996. Aboriginal Australia: Cape York Peninsula. In Jane
Turner (ed) Dictionary of Art, Vol 1 pp61-62. London: Macmillan.
Sutton, P. 1996. Jimmy Pike. In Jane Turner (ed) Dictionary of Art,
Vol 24 pp 802-803. London: Macmillan.
Sutton, P. 1996. Peter Skipper. In Jane Turner (ed) Dictionary of Art,
Vol 28 p819. London: Macmillan.
Sutton, Peter 1997. Materialism, Sacred Myth and Pluralism: Competing
Theories of the Origin of Australian Languages. In Scholar and Sceptic:
Australian Aboriginal Studies in Honour of L.R. Hiatt, edited by, F.
Merlan, J. Morton and A. Rumsey, pp211-242, 297-309. Canberra: Aboriginal
Studies Press.
Sutton, Peter 1999. The System as it was Straining to Become – Fluidity,
Stability and Aboriginal Country Groups In J.D. Finlayson, B. Rigsby and H.J.
Bek (eds), Connections in Native Title: Genealogies, Kinship and Groups,
pp13-57. Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (ANU).
Sutton, Peter 2002.
Rejoinder to Pannell and Vachon. The Australian Journal of Anthropology
13:45-50.
Sutton, Peter 2005. Myth and history. In M. Charlesworth, F. Dussart
& H. Morphy (eds), Aboriginal Religions in Australia. An Anthology of
Recent Writings, pp141-155. Aldershot (UK): Ashgate. [Edited re-publication
of P. Sutton 1988, Myth as history, history as myth. In Ian Keen (ed.),
Being Black. Aboriginal Cultures in 'Settled' Australia, pp251-268.
Canberra: AIAS.]
Sutton, Peter 2008. Stories about feeling: Dutch-Australian contact in
Cape York Peninsula, 1606-1756. In P. Veth, P. Sutton & M. Neale (eds) Strangers
on the Shore: Early Coastal Contacts in Australia, pp35-59. Canberra:
National Museum of Australia Press.
Sutton, Peter, and Peter Veth 2008. Introduction and themes. In P. Veth,
P. Sutton & M. Neale (eds) Strangers on the Shore: Early Coastal
Contacts in Australia, pp1-5. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press.
Sutton, Peter, and Harold Koch 2008. Australian languages: a singular
vision. Journal of Linguistics 44:471-504.
Sutton, Peter 2008. Stanner’s veil: transcendence and the limits of
scientific inquiry. In Melinda Hinkson and Jeremy Beckett (eds) An
Appreciation of Difference: WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia, pp115-125.
Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Sutton, Peter 2008. Stanner and Aboriginal land use: ecology, economic
change, and enclosing the commons. In Melinda Hinkson and Jeremy Beckett (eds) An
Appreciation of Difference: WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia, pp169-184.
Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Sutton, Peter 2009. Arthur
Koo’ekka Pambegan Jr. In Brenda Croft (ed), Culture warriors: National
Indigenous Art Triennial (Second revised edition), pp32-36. Canberra:
National Gallery of Australia.
Sutton, Peter 2009. Australian
anthropologists and political action 1925-1960. Oceania 79:202-217.
Sutton, Peter 2009. Culture
worriers. The Australian Literary Review, June 3:3-5.
Sutton, Peter 2009. Here I
Stand. Peter Sutton on Noel Pearson’s Up from the Mission. Review
article. The Monthly June 2009:68-71
Sutton,
Peter. 2009. Australian anthropologists and political action 1925-1960. Oceania
79: 202-217.
Sutton, Peter 2009. Craig
Koomeeta. In Nicole Foreshew & Brian Parkes (eds), Menagerie:
Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture, pp76-79. Sydney: Object: Australian
Centre for Craft and Design and The Australian Museum.
Sutton, Peter 2009. Leigh
Namponan. In Nicole Foreshew & Brian Parkes (eds), Menagerie:
Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture, pp102-103. Sydney: Object: Australian
Centre for Craft and Design and The Australian Museum.
Sutton, Peter 2010. Aboriginal
spirituality in a new age. In Carolyn Schwarz and Françoise Dussart (eds), Engaging
Christianity in Aboriginal Australia. Special issue of The Australian
Journal of Anthropology 21:71-89.
Sutton, Peter 2010. Ursula
McConnel’s tin trunk: a remarkable recovery. Transactions of the Royal
Society of South Australia 134:101-114.
Sutton, Peter. 2010. The logic of Wik camping. In Karen Hardy (ed), Archaeological
invisibility and forgotten knowledge,
pp91-107. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
Sutton, Peter, and Michael Snow
(in press, accepted 29/10/08). Iridescence. In Diana Young (ed) Re-materializing
Colour. Oxford: Sean Kingston Publishing.
Unpublished academic studies
Sutton,
P. 1973. Gugu-Badhun and its neighbours. M.A. (Hons) thesis, Macquarie
University. 272pp.
PAPERS ON PROFESSIONAL ISSUES, PUBLIC POLICY AND CURRENT EVENTS
Sutton, P. 1974. Aboriginal languages: the role of research. Aboriginal
News 1(8):15-17.
Sutton, P. 1981. Land rights and compensation in settled Australia. Social
Alternatives 2(2):6-10.
Sutton, P. 1982. Anthropology outside the universities in Australia. Australian
Anthropological Society Newsletter 15:12-25.
Sutton, P. 1983. AAS code of ethics: Consulting work. Australian
Anthropological Society Newsletter 15:19-20.
Sutton, P. 1983. The buck stops where? Australian Anthropological
Society Newsletter 21:23-28. [On ethics.]
Sutton, P. 1984. New directions at the South Australian Museum. Aboriginal
Heritage Newsletter [South Australia] 14:3-6.
Sutton, P. 1984/5. Opinion formation and the problem of group consent.
In R.M. and C.H. Berndt (eds.), A collection of essays on Aboriginal land
rights for the Government of Western Australia Aboriginal Land Inquiry 1983-84,
special issue of Anthropological Forum 5:382-4.
Sutton, P. 1984/5. Suggestions for a bicameral system. In R.M. and C.H.
Berndt (eds.), A collection of essays on Aboriginal land rights for the
Government of Western Australia Aboriginal Land Inquiry 1983-84, special
issue of Anthropological Forum 5:395-9.
Sutton 1984/5. Proposals for anthropological input to baseline impact
studies. In R.M. and C.H. Berndt (eds.), A collection of essays on
Aboriginal land rights for the Government of Western Australia Aboriginal Land
Inquiry 1983-84, special issue of Anthropological Forum 5:464-5.
Sutton, P. 1984/5. Some questions about adjudication, customary law and
land. In R.M. and C.H. Berndt (eds.), A collection of essays on Aboriginal
land rights for the Government of Western Australia Aboriginal Land Inquiry
1983-84, special issue of Anthropological Forum 5:489-91.
Sutton, P. 1986. Draft code of ethics for professional anthropologists
in Australia. Australian Anthropological Society Newsletter 29:17-23.
Sutton, P. 1986. The Australian anthropological tradition. Australian
Anthropological Society Newsletter 29:31-4.
Sutton, P. 1986. Projected work in the Lake Eyre Basin 1986-1990.
Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia 24(1):22-28.
Sutton, P. 1986. Anthropologists and development in Arnhem Land. Australian
Aboriginal Studies 1986/1:34-38.
Sutton, P. 1989. Anchorites on the loose? Anthropology in the Australian
art world. Agenda December 1989:20-21. (Reprinted in Bulletin of the
Conference of Museum Anthropologists 23:43-46 (1990).)
Sutton, P. 1990. The Aurukun project. Records of the South Australian
Museum 24:69-70.
Sutton, P. 1990. Curating Aboriginal art. Paper presented at Power
Institute of Fine Arts symposium, Art Gallery of NSW, 30 October 1990. Ms 13pp.
Sutton, P. 1990. Aurukun and Comalco. Artlink 10(1&2):41.
Sutton, P. 1990. Planning and decision-making in Cape York Peninsula:
whose principles, for whose benefit? Paper precirculated for AIATSIS conference
on Remote Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Community Futures, Townsville
July 1990. Word-processed 9pp.
Sutton, P. 1990. Dreamings: the story thus far. Bulletin of the
Conference of Museum Anthropologists 23:43-46.
Sutton, P. 1994. The relative strengths of oral and written evidence.
Pp20-24 in J. Fingleton, M. Edmunds & P. McRandle (eds), Proof and
management of native title: Summary proceedings of a workshop, Canberra:
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Sutton, P. 1994. Working on land issues for Aboriginal people. Pp107-113
in P. Jull, M. Mulrennan, M. Sullivan, G. Crough & D. Lea (eds), Surviving
Columbus: Indigenous peoples, political reform and environmental management in
north Australia, Darwin: NARU, ANU.
Sutton, P. 1994. Budgeting for research consultants. Australian
Anthropological Society Newsletter 1994/1:1-9.
Sutton, P. 1995. Atomism versus Collectivism: the Problem of Group
Definition in Native Title Cases. Pp1-10 in Jim Fingleton and Julie Finlayson
(eds), Anthropology in the Native Title Era: Proceedings of a Workshop,
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies.
Sutton, P. 1995. Forensic Anthropology in Australia: Does it Have a Case
to Answer?. In Julie Finlayson and Diane Smith (eds) Native Title: Emerging
Issues for Research, Policy and Practice, pp83-100. Canberra: CAEPR, ANU.
Sutton, P. 1996. '...About the Gist of what was Said': Communication in
the Context of Native Title'. In Frank McKeown (ed), Native Title: an
Opportunity for Understanding pp115-123. Perth: National Native Title
Tribunal.
Sutton, P. 1996. Discussion of conference topics. In Frank McKeown (ed),
Native Title: an Opportunity for Understanding pp44-45, 77-78,
126, Perth: National Native Title Tribunal.
Sutton, Peter 1996. Letter to the Editor [on removals of Aboriginal
children]. The Australian 10 October.
Sutton, Peter 1997. Tindale’s Legacy Overstated. [Letter to the Editor].
The Australian 17 March.
Sutton, Peter 1998. The Academy and Native Title. Lumen
[University of Adelaide magazine] January 1998: 12-13.
Sutton, Peter 1999. The Reeves Report and the Idea of the 'Community'.
In J.C. Altman, F. Morphy and T. Rowse (eds), Land Rights at Risk?
Evaluations of the Reeves Report, pp39-52. Canberra: CAEPR (ANU).
Sutton, Peter 1999. Anthropological Submission on the Reeves Review. Supplement
to Australian Anthropological Society Newsletter 75, March 1999.
Sutton, Peter 1999. Anthropological Submission on the Reeves Review. Anthropological
Forum 9:189-208.
Sutton, Peter 2001. Considerations for the production of native title
negotiation anthropological reports. Practicing Anthropology
23(1):24-28.
Sutton, Peter 2001. Let's leap across historical hurdles to progress.
Archaic policies and cultural mores hurt Aborigines, argues Peter Sutton. The
Australian 24 April, p9.
Sutton, Peter 2001. Ronald and Catherine Berndt: an appreciation. Anthropological Forum 11:121-124.
Sutton, Peter 2001.
The politics of pain. The Age [newspaper, Melbourne] 7 December, p13.
Sutton, Peter 2002. Linguistic Evidence and Native Title Cases in
Australia. In John Henderson and David Nash (eds), Language in Native Title,
pp21-41. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Sutton, Peter 2003. Star gazing. [Letter to the Editor, re Hindmarsh Island]. The Australian 20 May.
Sutton, Peter 2004. Social scientists and native title cases in
Australia. General Anthropology (Bulletin of the General Anthropology
Division of the American Anthropological Association) 11 (1):1-5.
Sutton, Peter 2006. Surprise discovery of early anthropological papers
in Adelaide. The Australian Anthropological Society Newsletter 103:1-2.
Sutton, Peter 2006.
Surprise discovery of early anthropological papers in Adelaide. The
Australian Linguistic Society Newsletter November 2006:2-3.
Sutton, Peter 2008. After consensus. The Griffith Review
21:199-216.
Sutton,
Peter 2008. Twilight of old radicals. The Weekend Australian August 9-10
p26.
Sutton, Peter 2008.
Last drinks: correspondence. Quarterly Essay 31:77-80
Sutton, Peter 2009. Let’s not
shut our eyes to the truth. Outback blindness won’t be eradicated unless
sufferers change their behaviour, warns Peter Sutton. The Australian
30/09/09 p14.
Sutton, Peter 2009. Radical hope: correspondence. Quarterly Essay
36:112-115.
Reviews
1972. Review of four AIAS publications on Aboriginal languages. Mankind
8:321-22.
1975. Review of J. Kirton Papers in Australian linguistics 5
(Canberra 1971), Oceania 46:159-60.
1977. Review of B. Schebeck, L. Hercus & I. White Papers in
Australian linguistics 6 (Canberra 1973), Oceania 47:330-31.
1977. Review of D. Tryon Daly Family languages, Australia
(Canberra 1974), Oceania 47:331-32.
1979. Review of E. Vaszolyi Aboriginal Australians speak (Perth
1976), Ethnic Studies 3:90-91.
1980. Review of C. Kilham Thematic organisation of Wik-Munkan
discourse (Canberra 1977), Oceania 51:67.
1980. Review of R. Moyle Songs of the Pintupi (Canberra 1979), Mankind
12:373-74.
1981. Review of R.M.W. Dixon The languages of Australia
(Cambridge 1980), Aboriginal History 5:169-71.
1983. Review of G. Breen The Mayi languages of the Queensland Gulf
Country (Canberra 1981), Mankind 13:555-56.
1983. Review of F. Wordick The Yindjibarndi language (Canberra
1982), Mankind 14:145-46.
1984. Pitjantjatjara polemic. [Review of P. Toyne and D. Vachon Growing
up the country - the Pitjantjatjara struggle for their land (Melbourne 1984),
The Adelaide Review September 1984:20]
1984. Civilisation as we knew it. [Review of A. Macfarlane The
origins of English individualism: the family, property and social transition
(Oxford 1978), The Adelaide Review October 1984:15]
1985. Gaps and lapses. [Review of M. Gumbert Neither justice nor
reason: a legal and anthropological analysis of land rights (St Lucia
1984), The Adelaide Review February 1985:17-18]
1986. Review of D. Bolinger, Language, the loaded weapon
(Longman) Mankind 16:73.
1986. Review of T. Swain, Interpreting Aboriginal religion: an
historical account, Adelaide: AASR 1985.Oceania 57:76-9.
1987. Getting friends. Intricate cross-linkings. Review of S. Wild (ed.)
Rom: An Aboriginal ritual of diplomacy. Canberra: AIAS. Australian
Book Review 96:15-16.
1987. Review of F.R. Myers, Pintupi country, Pintupi self
(Washington 1986). American Ethnologist 14:588-9.
1987. From horizontal to perpendicular: Two recent books on Central
Australian Aboriginal painting. [Review of N. Amadio et al, Albert
Namatjira, the life and work of an Australian painter. Melbourne: Macmillan
1986, and of J Maughan & J. Zimmer (eds) Dot & circle: A
retrospective of the Aboriginal acrylic paintings of Central Australia
Melbourne: MIT 1986. Records of the South Australian Museum 21:161-5.
1989. Review of D.J. Mulvaney, Encounters in place. Outsiders and
Aboriginal Australians 1606-1985. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press
1989. The Advertiser March 18.
1989. Review of The speaking land. Myth and story in Aboriginal
Australia, by R.M. Berndt & C.H. Berndt, Melbourne: Penguin 1989; and Black
words, white page. Aboriginal literature 1929-1988, by Adam Shoemaker,
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. The Advertiser 12 August.
1989. Review of We are here. Politics of aboriginal land tenure,
ed. Edwin N. Wilmsen, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Science
246:510-511.
1991. Review of J. Downing, Country of my spirit, Darwin: North
Australia Research Unit, 1988. The Australian Journal of Anthropology
2:1.
1993. Review of D.S. Trigger, Whitefella comin': Aboriginal responses
to colonialism in northern Australia, Melbourne: CUP 1992. Anthropological
Forum :621-3.
Review of H. Morphy, Ancestral Connections: Art and an Aboriginal
System of Knowledge, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1991. Canberra
Anthropology 17:93-95.
1996. Review of I. Keen, Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal
Religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1994. Canberra Anthropology
19:136-138.
1996. Review of E. Toohey, Kie Daudai: Notes and Sketches from Cape
York. Ravenshoe (Queensland): The Author. Aboriginal History 20:236.
2000. Review of A. Duranti, Linguistic Anthropology, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press 1997, and W.A. Foley, Anthropological
Linguistics: An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers 1997. Australian
Journal of Linguistics 20:85-87.
2001. Review of Patrick McConvell and Nicholas Evans (eds), Archaeology
and linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in global perspective. Melbourne:
Oxford University Press, 1997. Oceania 72:82-83.
2002. Culture, civilisation and designer tribalism. Review of Roger
Sandall, The Culture Cult. Designer Tribalism and Other Essays. Boulder,
Colorado: Westview Press 2001. St Mark’s Review 2002 (3):40-42.
Sutton, Peter 2005.After Captain Cooke [sic]. Edited by Rodney Harrison
and Christine Williamson (review). Public Archaeology 4:281-282.
Sutton, Peter 2006. Review of Fred R. Myers 2002, Painting Culture. The Making of an Aboriginal High Art. Durham (North Carolina) and London: Duke University Press. Oceania 76:317-318.
Sutton, Peter 2007. The unwavering eye: David McKnight's ethnographic-historical legacy. Review article, re David McKnight 2004, Going the Whiteman's Way. Kinship and Marriage among Australian Aborigines. Aldershot: Ashgate. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 18:227-230.
Unpublished lectures (selection)