Prof Emeritus Nic Peterson in discussion with Pascale Taplin
Summary: Nic Peterson has a long and distinguished career as an anthropologist, with a particular focus on Aboriginal societies including in central Arnhem land and in central Australia. Pascale Taplin originally worked for a decade in Aboriginal land management, and has a further decade of experience as an anthropologist in Land Councils and Representative Bodies in the Northern Territory and Queensland.
In this first podcast, Pascale Taplin interviews Nic Peterson in an exploration of four key elements of classical Aboriginal local organisation – the land owning clans and their estates, and the land utilising bands and the ranges of those bands.