Peter D. Dwyer (born 1937, New Zealand) is an anthropologist and zoologist. He is an honorary research fellow at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb no ...

in Australia. He was Reader in Zoology at the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

, retiring in 1997.

Contributions

As a zoologist trained at

Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. The university is well kno ...

(BSc, MSc) and the University of New England in Armidale, Australia (PhD) he is credited for first documenting the endangered

New Zealand Greater Short-tailed Bat The New Zealand greater short-tailed bat (''Mystacina robusta'') is one of two species of New Zealand short-tailed bats, a family (Mystacinidae) unique to New Zealand. Larger than the New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat, there have been no confi ...

. 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 large Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas Project. Over a decade of fieldwork with fisherfolk in Lakes Entrance, Victoria revealed 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. * Minnegal, M. and P.D. Dwyer. 2017.
Navigating the Future: An Ethnography of Change in Papua New Guinea
'. Canberra: ANU Press. * 140 articles and chapters

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Australian anthropologists New Zealand anthropologists Living people 1937 births {{Zoologist-stub