Peter Lucich is an anthropologist with a particular interest in Aboriginal societies and kinship in the Kimberley region of Western Australia about which he has written non-fiction works. In 1967 Lucich completed a Masters degree at the University of Western Australia on the 'Development of Amaha Kinship Terminologies in Three Australian Aboriginal Tribes of the Kimberley Division, Western Australia' at the University of Western Australia. This was published by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, in 1968.