Nicolas Peterson

About The Author

Nicolas Peterson is Professor of Anthropology at the Australian National University and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. His research is focused on land and sea tenure, Aboriginal engagement with the Australian economy, history of anthropology and photography of anthropological subjects.

Books by Nicolas Peterson

Donald Thomson In Arnhem Land
By Nicolas Peterson
'I had lived and hunted with these people, accompanied them on their nomadic wanderings and learned their customs and their languages with the result that I understood and believed in them and resented the injustices under which they had suffered for so long at the hands of the white man and othe...
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Makers and Making Of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections
Editor Nicolas Peterson, Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby
This volume of original essays brings together, for the first time, histories of the making and of the makers of most of the major Indigenous Australian museum collections. These collections are a principal source of information on how Aboriginal people lived in the past. Knowing the context in w...
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