Peter Dwyer

Peter D. Dwyer(born 1937, New Zealand) is an anthropologist and zoologist. He is an honorary research fellow at theUniversity of Melbournein Australia. He was Reader in Zoology at theUniversity of Queensland,retiring in 1997.

Contributions

As a zoologist trained atVictoria University of Wellington(BSc, MSc) and theUniversity of New Englandin Armidale, Australia (PhD) he is credited for first documenting the endangeredNew Zealand Greater Short-tailed Bat.He worked on bats in New Zealand from 1959, then in Queensland and Papua New Guinea studying bats,Bower Birds,mammals, and local peoples' taxonomies.

Increasingly interested in human ecology and anthropology, he conducted fieldwork at different times between the 1970s and 2014 with highland and interior lowland people in Papua New Guinea: Kubo, Febi, Konai and Bedamuni. Initially focusing on documentation of land use and agriculture, and social change, his most recent project with Monica Minnegal examined the social changes resulting from the largePapua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas Project.

Over a decade of fieldwork with fisherfolk inLakes Entrance, Victoriarevealed their performance, skill, and negotiation of risk.

Publications

• Dwyer, P.D. 1990.The Pigs That Ate the Garden: A Human Ecology from Papua New Guinea.University of Michigan Press.ISBN0472101579
• Minnegal, M. and P.D. Dwyer. 2017.Navigating the Future: An Ethnography of Change in Papua New Guinea.Canberra: ANU Press.ISBN9781760461249
• 140 articles and chapters

External links

• Page at University of Melbourne
• Publications