| Description |
1 online resource (295 pages) |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sutton, Peter, 1946-
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| SUBJECT |
Sutton, Peter, 1946- fast |
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Morphy, Frances
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| ISBN |
174305792X |
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9781743057926 |
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9781743057568 |
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1743057563 |
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