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Author Finlayson, Julie.

Title Ethnographer and Contrarian : Biographical and anthropological essays in honour of Peter Sutton.

Imprint Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (295 pages)
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Contents Cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Imprint -- Contents page 1 -- Contents page 2 -- Figures, Maps and Tables -- Preface -- Part 1 -- Reflections on a life -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction: A contrarian life -- Chapter 2 -- Outside the square: From Christian Scientist to social scientist -- Chapter 3 -- Living Larrimah: A reminiscence -- Chapter 4 -- What is a social anthropologist doing in a museum? -- Part 2 -- On the politics of suffering -- Chapter 5 -- Suttonalia: A revealing moment in public anthropology -- Chapter 6 -- Suffering and silence: Sutton's challenge
Chapter 7 -- Speaking to others: Anthropology's languages, audiences and engagements -- Chapter 8 -- Personal challenges and professional research in Aboriginal Australia: Reading 'The Politics of Suffering' -- Chapter 9 -- Culture, development and the future of remote Aboriginal communities -- Chapter 10 -- The politics of suffering: Some contrarian reflections -- Part 3 -- On classical and post-classical societies -- Chapter 11 -- Marriage networks in Arnhem Land and beyond
Chapter 12 -- The resilience of Lakes societies: From classical systems to 'families of polity' and the endurance of 'underlying title' -- Chapter 13 -- Sutton's model of underlying and proximate customary title and the Lander Warlpiri region -- Chapter 14 -- Géza Róheim's Australian dreams -- Appendix -- Contributors -- Index -- Wakefield Press -- Back cover
Summary Sutton's colleagues reflect on aspects of his life and work, starting with a set of biographical essays. The second section focuses on his controversial book ""The Politics of Suffering"". The third section addresses Sutton's ground-breaking analysis of the transition between ""classical"" and ""post-classical"" social formations in Aboriginal Australia
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Subject Sutton, Peter, 1946-
Sutton, Peter, 1946- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjRRyyMkbKjGDc776QTHC
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
Added Author Morphy, Frances.
Other Form: Print version: Finlayson, Julie D. Ethnographer and Contrarian. Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2020 9781743057926
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