Daniela Vávrová
Biographic Data
| ID | 76030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniela Vávrová |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniela |
| FAMILY NAME | Vávrová |
| SIGNATURE | VÁVROVÁ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3721-1333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Graun Em Pulap Long Pipia: Rubbish, Sorcery, and Spiritual Healing, Papua New Guinea
Bapra Simi, an Ambonwari spiritual healer living in the border town of Vanimo in Papua New Guinea comments that the “Earth is full of rubbish” and associates this material overflow with the possible causes and consequences of sorcery. This short explanatory paper accompanies the video entitled Bapra Simi, Glasmeri, Spiritual Healer, Papua New Guinea (Vávrová, 2020), which follows Bapra Simi through her material and spiritual healing practices, an…
Bodily Connections Between Yielding and Knowing in Anthropological Filmmaking and Internal Martial Arts
Yielding and knowing may be familiar terms. But how do they connect to anthropological filmmaking and Chinese martial arts? This is a new way of looking at knowledge in the making. The author defines the relationship between the two arts and their experiential and physical ways of learning and understanding the world. Each art has its own aesthetic and ethical qualities. They are creative processes and embody an attitude towards life
Brideprice and Prejudice: An Audio‐Visual Ethnography on Marriage and Modernity in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea
The relationship between bridewealth and women's autonomy is not only discussed amongst anthropologists, development practitioners and other scholars but also amongst brides themselves. Women continue to embrace such marital exchanges, despite their knowledge of ‘modern’ development discourse about the constraints of the practice on women's status and its links to gender‐based violence. This paper provides a visual exploration of contemporary bri…
The rocking of canoe and custom: Shifts in Ambonwari’s perception of invisible realm, secrecy and village hierarchy
This article explores the ways of communicating with the spirits in the Ambonwari village of East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea. Due to the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic charismatic movement, many customary practices have been abandoned over the last twenty years while some are still occasionally performed. One of the latter is kay wurukrarin (rocking canoe). This practice used to be a traditional way of asking the spirit of the land or…
An Extraordinary Wedding: Some Reflections on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Authorial Strategies in Ethnographic Filmmaking
In attempting to create visual narratives, ethnographic filmmakers often face intractable dilemmas of choice, both ethical and aesthetical, in what to sacrifice from many hours of footage of complex socio-cultural practices and performances. How do we author a narrative that can be understood and appreciated by a broader audience without diminishing the integrity of the lifeworld of the characters? How do we convey the intricacies of the social r…
Ringing the living and the dead: Mobile phones in a Sepik society
Since Digicel services began to operate in remote areas of Papua New Guinea in mid‐2007, enthusiasm for mobile telecommunication devices has become a pan‐New Guinean phenomenon. During our last fieldwork period, between December 2010 and December 2011, no mobile phone network existed among the Karawari people in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. However, their expectations were high and some individuals had already purchased mobile pho…
Cinema in the Bush
During fieldwork among the Karawari-speaking people of Papua New Guinea, I used a variety of audiovisual devices to explore people's sociocultural perception and expression. Numerous public screenings of documentary and feature films were organized. In this way the ethnographic research has become an exchange of sensory experiences between one world, characterized by an abundance of new audiovisual technology, and the other by its virtual absence…
Places and Spirits in a Sepik Society
Over the past decade, under the influence of the Catholic charismatic movement, the Ambonwari people of East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea have radically altered their relationships with bush spirits and, simultaneously, their attitudes towards their landscape. During the current process of abolishing prohibitions pertaining to taboo places, the Ambonwari have also abolished a set of cultural activities that were characteristic of ancestral …
Visual interventions. Applied visual anthropology edited by Pink, Sarah
The cinema of Robert Gardner edited by Barbash, Ilisa and Lucien Taylor
Ringing the living and the dead: Mobile phones in a Sepik society
Since Digicel services began to operate in remote areas of Papua New Guinea in mid‐2007, enthusiasm for mobile telecommunication devices has become a pan‐New Guinean phenomenon. During our last fieldwork period, between December 2010 and December 2011, no mobile phone network existed among the Karawari people in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. However, their expectations were high and some individuals had already purchased mobile pho…
Places and Spirits in a Sepik Society
Over the past decade, under the influence of the Catholic charismatic movement, the Ambonwari people of East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea have radically altered their relationships with bush spirits and, simultaneously, their attitudes towards their landscape. During the current process of abolishing prohibitions pertaining to taboo places, the Ambonwari have also abolished a set of cultural activities that were characteristic of ancestral …
Cinema in the Bush
During fieldwork among the Karawari-speaking people of Papua New Guinea, I used a variety of audiovisual devices to explore people's sociocultural perception and expression. Numerous public screenings of documentary and feature films were organized. In this way the ethnographic research has become an exchange of sensory experiences between one world, characterized by an abundance of new audiovisual technology, and the other by its virtual absence…
An Extraordinary Wedding: Some Reflections on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Authorial Strategies in Ethnographic Filmmaking
In attempting to create visual narratives, ethnographic filmmakers often face intractable dilemmas of choice, both ethical and aesthetical, in what to sacrifice from many hours of footage of complex socio-cultural practices and performances. How do we author a narrative that can be understood and appreciated by a broader audience without diminishing the integrity of the lifeworld of the characters? How do we convey the intricacies of the social r…
Graun Em Pulap Long Pipia: Rubbish, Sorcery, and Spiritual Healing, Papua New Guinea
Bapra Simi, an Ambonwari spiritual healer living in the border town of Vanimo in Papua New Guinea comments that the “Earth is full of rubbish” and associates this material overflow with the possible causes and consequences of sorcery. This short explanatory paper accompanies the video entitled Bapra Simi, Glasmeri, Spiritual Healer, Papua New Guinea (Vávrová, 2020), which follows Bapra Simi through her material and spiritual healing practices, an…
Visual interventions. Applied visual anthropology edited by Pink, Sarah
The cinema of Robert Gardner edited by Barbash, Ilisa and Lucien Taylor
Places and Spirits in a Sepik Society
Over the past decade, under the influence of the Catholic charismatic movement, the Ambonwari people of East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea have radically altered their relationships with bush spirits and, simultaneously, their attitudes towards their landscape. During the current process of abolishing prohibitions pertaining to taboo places, the Ambonwari have also abolished a set of cultural activities that were characteristic of ancestral …
Ringing the living and the dead: Mobile phones in a Sepik society
Since Digicel services began to operate in remote areas of Papua New Guinea in mid‐2007, enthusiasm for mobile telecommunication devices has become a pan‐New Guinean phenomenon. During our last fieldwork period, between December 2010 and December 2011, no mobile phone network existed among the Karawari people in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. However, their expectations were high and some individuals had already purchased mobile pho…
Cinema in the Bush
During fieldwork among the Karawari-speaking people of Papua New Guinea, I used a variety of audiovisual devices to explore people's sociocultural perception and expression. Numerous public screenings of documentary and feature films were organized. In this way the ethnographic research has become an exchange of sensory experiences between one world, characterized by an abundance of new audiovisual technology, and the other by its virtual absence…
An Extraordinary Wedding: Some Reflections on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Authorial Strategies in Ethnographic Filmmaking
In attempting to create visual narratives, ethnographic filmmakers often face intractable dilemmas of choice, both ethical and aesthetical, in what to sacrifice from many hours of footage of complex socio-cultural practices and performances. How do we author a narrative that can be understood and appreciated by a broader audience without diminishing the integrity of the lifeworld of the characters? How do we convey the intricacies of the social r…
The rocking of canoe and custom: Shifts in Ambonwari’s perception of invisible realm, secrecy and village hierarchy
This article explores the ways of communicating with the spirits in the Ambonwari village of East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea. Due to the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic charismatic movement, many customary practices have been abandoned over the last twenty years while some are still occasionally performed. One of the latter is kay wurukrarin (rocking canoe). This practice used to be a traditional way of asking the spirit of the land or…
Brideprice and Prejudice: An Audio‐Visual Ethnography on Marriage and Modernity in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea
The relationship between bridewealth and women's autonomy is not only discussed amongst anthropologists, development practitioners and other scholars but also amongst brides themselves. Women continue to embrace such marital exchanges, despite their knowledge of ‘modern’ development discourse about the constraints of the practice on women's status and its links to gender‐based violence. This paper provides a visual exploration of contemporary bri…
Bodily Connections Between Yielding and Knowing in Anthropological Filmmaking and Internal Martial Arts
Yielding and knowing may be familiar terms. But how do they connect to anthropological filmmaking and Chinese martial arts? This is a new way of looking at knowledge in the making. The author defines the relationship between the two arts and their experiential and physical ways of learning and understanding the world. Each art has its own aesthetic and ethical qualities. They are creative processes and embody an attitude towards life
Graun Em Pulap Long Pipia: Rubbish, Sorcery, and Spiritual Healing, Papua New Guinea
Bapra Simi, an Ambonwari spiritual healer living in the border town of Vanimo in Papua New Guinea comments that the “Earth is full of rubbish” and associates this material overflow with the possible causes and consequences of sorcery. This short explanatory paper accompanies the video entitled Bapra Simi, Glasmeri, Spiritual Healer, Papua New Guinea (Vávrová, 2020), which follows Bapra Simi through her material and spiritual healing practices, an…
Sociology (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Ethnology (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · New guinea (5 works) · Law (4 works)