 Associate
Professor Peter Veth is Deputy-Director of the National
Centre for Indigenous Studies.
Peter was formerly the Director
of the Research Program at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Studies for five years and a lecturer
and Associate Professor at James Cook University for ten years
previously.
His research interests include
the evolution of desert and maritime societies, cultural heritage
management, native title, maritime archaeology, contact history
and the depiction of Indigenous societies in the media. Completed
projects include books on global desert peoples, maritime societies
east of Wallace's Line, the archaeology of northern Australia
and the use of social science evidence in native title and projects
on the archaeology, ethnohistory and material culture of societies
in the Western desert of Australia, the Aru Islands of Maluku
province, Indonesia and East Timor.
Current projects are an ARC
Linkage Project with Western Desert Lands Aboriginal Corporation,
Kimberley Land Council and other government partners mapping
values along the Canning Stock Route for a management plan and
an edited volume with Peter Sutton on first coastal contacts
between Indigenous people with 'outside' colonial and mercantile
powers from 1606.
E:
Peter.Veth @ anu.edu.au
T: +61 2 6125 9321
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