David McKnight

David McKnight (4 March 1935 – 14 May 2006) was a Canadian-British anthropologist and ethnographer known for his expertise in the anthropology of Australian Aboriginal people, specifically the tribes of the Cape York Peninsula. He conducted over 20 field trips among Aboriginal communities in Australia from 1965 to 1999. McKnight was born in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1935 and completed his B.A. in English Lit and Philosophy at Bishop's University in Quebec in 1957. He later pursued an M.A. in anthropology at University College London, focusing on African death cults. He then shifted his research to Australian Aboriginal studies and became a lecturer in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University and The London School of Economics.