Peter Sutton
Present position
Senior Research Fellow,
Contact: peter.sutton AT samuseum.sa.gov.au
Publications
(some available online)
Books
Sutton, P. (ed.) 1976. Languages
of
Sutton, P. and M. Walsh
1979. Revised Linguistic Fieldwork Manual for
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
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
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.
Sutton, Peter, and Joanna Bosse
2007. Puulway:
Wik and Kugu Totems. Contemporary Australian Sculpture from Aurukun
[catalogue].
Veth,
Peter, Peter Sutton and Margo Neale (eds)
2008. Strangers on the Shore: Early Coastal Contacts in
Sutton, Peter (2009). The Politics of
Suffering: Indigenous
Anthropological and linguistic papers
Sutton, P. 1975. How many Aboriginal
languages are there? Aboriginal News 2(1):22-23.
Sutton, P. 1976.
Sutton, P. 1976. The diversity
of initial-dropping languages in southern
Sutton, P. 1976. A note
on
Sutton, P. 1976. Gugu-Badhun
and the
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,
Sutton, P. 1978. Languages.
Pp48-49 in M. Hill and A. Barlow (eds.) Black
Sutton, P. 1979. Australian
language names. Pp87-105 in S. Wurm (ed.) Australian linguistic
studies, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Sutton, P. and B. Rigsby
1979. Linguistic communities and social networks on
Sutton, P. and M. Walsh
(comps.) 1979. AIAS
wordlist for Australian languages. 3 parts. Canberra:
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Sutton, P. 1980. Cause,
origin and possession in the
Sutton, P. 1980. Linguistic
aspects of ethnobotanical research. Pp303-14 in B. Rigsby and P. Sutton
(eds.) Contributions to Australian linguistics, Canberra: Pacific
Linguistics.
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
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
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.
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'
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,
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,
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, =
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
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,
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
Sutton, Peter 2007. Norms, statistics, and the Jango case at
Yulara. Anthropological Forum 17:175-192.
Sutton, Peter
2008. Stories about feeling: Dutch-Australian contact in
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.
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.
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.
Sutton, Peter 2009. Arthur Koo’ekka Pambegan Jr. In
Brenda Croft (ed), Culture warriors: National
Indigenous Art Triennial (Second revised edition), pp32-36.
Sutton, Peter 2009. Australian anthropologists
and political action 1925-1960.
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, and
Michael Snow (in press, accepted 29/10/08, due 2009). Iridescence. In
Diana Young (ed) Re-materializing Colour.
Sutton, Peter (in
press, accepted 12/09/08, due 2009). Aboriginal spirituality
in a new age. In Françoise Dussart and Carolyn Schwarz (eds), In dialogue with Christianities: rethinking
Aboriginal
Sutton, Peter
(accepted 16/01/09, in press, due 2009). The logic of Wik camping. In Ole Grøn
& Karen Hardy (eds), Archaeological
invisibility and forgotten knowledge.
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
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
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
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,
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
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,
Sutton, P. 1995. Forensic Anthropology in
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,
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 [
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,
Sutton, Peter 2002. Linguistic
Evidence and Native Title Cases in
Sutton, Peter 2003. Star gazing. [Letter to the Editor, re
Sutton, Peter 2004. Social
scientists and native title cases in
Sutton, Peter 2006. Surprise
discovery of early anthropological papers in
Sutton,
Peter 2006. Unexpected
treasure: surprise discovery of early anthropological papers by Ursula McConnel
in Adelaide. Anthropology Today 22:21.
Sutton, Peter 2006. Surprise discovery of early
anthropological papers in
Sutton, Peter 2008. After
consensus. The
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
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
1983. Review of G. Breen The
Mayi languages of the
1983. Review of F. Wordick The Yindjibarndi language (
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 (
1985. Gaps and lapses. [Review of M.
Gumbert Neither justice nor reason: a legal
and anthropological analysis of land rights (
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.
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
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 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)