Jennifer Deger
Biographic Data
| ID | 86835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Deger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Deger |
| SIGNATURE | DEGER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6054-4219 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Behalf of the Living, TonOtto, ChristianSuhr and GaryKildea, 2023, 105 mins. Distributed by Documentary Education Resources, New York. www.der.org
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
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Luŋ'thun: Sand, saltwater, and collaborative attunements
This audio‐visual essay works with the epistemic imperatives of our research subject—the sands and saltwater of a small stretch of coastline in northern Australia. Orchestrating a series of sounds and images together with a gentle rhythm of text‐based Yolŋu (human/Indigenous) elaboration, we seek to enable others to attune to a material dynamics of collaboration and co‐creation made manifestly palpable in the kinetic zones of coastal life. Rather…
Form: Anthropology as design
This essay argues for design as an expression of analytic rigour and ethical commitment. It explores what it might mean to ‘write’ in collaboration with the entities and forces from Country, ancestors, oceans, soil, honeyeaters, sound, wild bores, frogs, fire, ash, sand, trees, and echoes, to colour, code, bitrates, cameras, computers, and archives. Every design decision in ‘Epistemic attunements’ was conceptually‐motivated and informed by an ant…
President's note: The inaugural Australian Anthropological Society Behrouz Boochani Award
[Extract]: The Kurdish Iranian activist, writer and poet, and adjunct Associate Professor at UNSW, Behrouz Boochani, spent six years of his life detained without charge in Australia's offshore processing regime in Papua New Guinea. Between 2014 and 2017 he was held in the notorious and now defunct Manus Island detention centre, from where he wrote and campaigned for international recognition of the human rights abuses suffered by his fellow refug…
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene
Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize â feralâ ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control
Shimmer
An aesthetics of shimmer calls attention to a material world profoundly flecked with light. It suggests a material poetics for anthropological reflection while generating an allure that exceeds the confines of language or culture. In the Aboriginal art, media, and ritual of east Arnhem Land in northern Australia, an aesthetics of shimmer claims the invisible as not only an indelible dimension of the visible but also its very source. This is no ab…
G ardner, R obert (1925–2014)
Robert Gardner occupies an influential and controversial place in the history of ethnographic film. As a filmmaker and founding director of the Harvard Film Study Center, he championed film as an aesthetic medium of poetic interpretation and sensuous experience, directing films in Ethiopia, India, and New Guinea working alongside regional anthropological specialists. The resulting films— Dead Birds (1963), Rivers of Sand (1974), and Forest of Bli…
Thick photography
Across remote Aboriginal Australia, phone and tablet photographic technologies are giving rise to vibrant new forms of visual culture. Greenscreen software, montage and .gif effects enable the creation of layered images that literally pulse with meaning and affect. Akin to bark painting - yet deliberately different - such images reveal the spectral depth of Yolngu worlds. At a time when families across Arnhem Land face relentless loss and social …
Participatory Vision: Watching Movies with Yolngu
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Constellations of us: Backstories to a bark TV
This paper is concerned with the intercultural production and reception of images, new methodologies, new forms of research, and new forms of visual culture. It takes up these issues by telling stories about the production of an art installation made possible by a long-term collaboration between a Yolngu family and an anthropologist and deeply informed by the ways that Yolngu use images to enliven relationships and amplify the field of vision bey…
Fragments of the Owl's Egg
[Extract] Fragments of the Owl's Egg is a film about the fragility of lived memory, the vitality of imagination, and the inevitabilities of loss. Focusing on a multidisciplinary group of researchers and Aboriginal people working on a land management project at a remote camp in western Arnhem Land, Kim McKenzie has made a quietly impressive film that shows the ways that a shared passion for the striking rock art of this plateau country unites peop…
Visual Anthropology and the Cinema of Robert Gardner: Review of Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor (eds) The Cinema of Robert Gardner
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Imprinting on the Heart: Photography and Contemporary Yolngu Mournings
This article examines the ways photographs of the recently deceased have come to occupy a central place in Yolngu grieving practices. Harnessing the potentially traumatic ontological qualities of oscillating absence–presence that are inherent in such images, I show how Yolngu in Northern Australia use this affective force as a way to refigure and reconstitute embodied and sensuously mediated relationships between the living and the dead. With vis…
Koriam's Law: Film, Ethnography and Irreconcilable Accountings
Seeing the Invisible: Yolngu Video as Revelatory Ritual
This paper describes a video conceived and codirected by a first-time Yolngu video-maker, Bangana Wunungmurra. Made in local languages and in accordance with indigenous protocols and priorities, the video, Gularri: That Brings Unity, works to reproduce the potent, socially constitutive effects of highly restricted revelatory ritual—for an unrestricted television audience. Notes Thanks to the organizers, participants and respondents involved in th…
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene
Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize â feralâ ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control
Thick photography
Across remote Aboriginal Australia, phone and tablet photographic technologies are giving rise to vibrant new forms of visual culture. Greenscreen software, montage and .gif effects enable the creation of layered images that literally pulse with meaning and affect. Akin to bark painting - yet deliberately different - such images reveal the spectral depth of Yolngu worlds. At a time when families across Arnhem Land face relentless loss and social …
Seeing the Invisible: Yolngu Video as Revelatory Ritual
This paper describes a video conceived and codirected by a first-time Yolngu video-maker, Bangana Wunungmurra. Made in local languages and in accordance with indigenous protocols and priorities, the video, Gularri: That Brings Unity, works to reproduce the potent, socially constitutive effects of highly restricted revelatory ritual—for an unrestricted television audience. Notes Thanks to the organizers, participants and respondents involved in th…
Imprinting on the Heart: Photography and Contemporary Yolngu Mournings
This article examines the ways photographs of the recently deceased have come to occupy a central place in Yolngu grieving practices. Harnessing the potentially traumatic ontological qualities of oscillating absence–presence that are inherent in such images, I show how Yolngu in Northern Australia use this affective force as a way to refigure and reconstitute embodied and sensuously mediated relationships between the living and the dead. With vis…
Constellations of us: Backstories to a bark TV
This paper is concerned with the intercultural production and reception of images, new methodologies, new forms of research, and new forms of visual culture. It takes up these issues by telling stories about the production of an art installation made possible by a long-term collaboration between a Yolngu family and an anthropologist and deeply informed by the ways that Yolngu use images to enliven relationships and amplify the field of vision bey…
Koriam's Law: Film, Ethnography and Irreconcilable Accountings
Seeing the Invisible: Yolngu Video as Revelatory Ritual
This paper describes a video conceived and codirected by a first-time Yolngu video-maker, Bangana Wunungmurra. Made in local languages and in accordance with indigenous protocols and priorities, the video, Gularri: That Brings Unity, works to reproduce the potent, socially constitutive effects of highly restricted revelatory ritual—for an unrestricted television audience. Notes Thanks to the organizers, participants and respondents involved in th…
Imprinting on the Heart: Photography and Contemporary Yolngu Mournings
This article examines the ways photographs of the recently deceased have come to occupy a central place in Yolngu grieving practices. Harnessing the potentially traumatic ontological qualities of oscillating absence–presence that are inherent in such images, I show how Yolngu in Northern Australia use this affective force as a way to refigure and reconstitute embodied and sensuously mediated relationships between the living and the dead. With vis…
Visual Anthropology and the Cinema of Robert Gardner: Review of Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor (eds) The Cinema of Robert Gardner
The Cinema of Robert Gardner Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor (Eds) Oxford and New York, Berg Publishing, 2007 xi + 253 pp., 52 ill., bibliography, index, ISBN: 9781845207748, £19.99 (paper) Althoug...
Fragments of the Owl's Egg
[Extract] Fragments of the Owl's Egg is a film about the fragility of lived memory, the vitality of imagination, and the inevitabilities of loss. Focusing on a multidisciplinary group of researchers and Aboriginal people working on a land management project at a remote camp in western Arnhem Land, Kim McKenzie has made a quietly impressive film that shows the ways that a shared passion for the striking rock art of this plateau country unites peop…
Participatory Vision: Watching Movies with Yolngu
This chapter contains sections titled: Mediated Relations The Allure of the Unspoken Seeing Similitude Seeing Stories Focus, Force, and Feeling Viewing from the Inside Toward a Participatory Vision References
Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics and Politics
Constellations of us: Backstories to a bark TV
This paper is concerned with the intercultural production and reception of images, new methodologies, new forms of research, and new forms of visual culture. It takes up these issues by telling stories about the production of an art installation made possible by a long-term collaboration between a Yolngu family and an anthropologist and deeply informed by the ways that Yolngu use images to enliven relationships and amplify the field of vision bey…
Thick photography
Across remote Aboriginal Australia, phone and tablet photographic technologies are giving rise to vibrant new forms of visual culture. Greenscreen software, montage and .gif effects enable the creation of layered images that literally pulse with meaning and affect. Akin to bark painting - yet deliberately different - such images reveal the spectral depth of Yolngu worlds. At a time when families across Arnhem Land face relentless loss and social …
Shimmer
An aesthetics of shimmer calls attention to a material world profoundly flecked with light. It suggests a material poetics for anthropological reflection while generating an allure that exceeds the confines of language or culture. In the Aboriginal art, media, and ritual of east Arnhem Land in northern Australia, an aesthetics of shimmer claims the invisible as not only an indelible dimension of the visible but also its very source. This is no ab…
G ardner, R obert (1925–2014)
Robert Gardner occupies an influential and controversial place in the history of ethnographic film. As a filmmaker and founding director of the Harvard Film Study Center, he championed film as an aesthetic medium of poetic interpretation and sensuous experience, directing films in Ethiopia, India, and New Guinea working alongside regional anthropological specialists. The resulting films— Dead Birds (1963), Rivers of Sand (1974), and Forest of Bli…
President's note: The inaugural Australian Anthropological Society Behrouz Boochani Award
[Extract]: The Kurdish Iranian activist, writer and poet, and adjunct Associate Professor at UNSW, Behrouz Boochani, spent six years of his life detained without charge in Australia's offshore processing regime in Papua New Guinea. Between 2014 and 2017 he was held in the notorious and now defunct Manus Island detention centre, from where he wrote and campaigned for international recognition of the human rights abuses suffered by his fellow refug…
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene
Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize â feralâ ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control
Reach: Research as regeneration
The galvanising aim in curating ‘Epistemic attunements’ has been to reach beyond the infrastructural imaginaries of the corporate publishing regimes that so brutally standardise the form, production, and distribution of research. Yet rather than being wholly enamoured with the pursuit of new publics, or with the kind of reach and influence that our bespoke digital platform affords, we take the idea of ‘reach’ in a different direction. In short, w…
Epistemic attunements: Experiments in intermedial anthropology
‘Epistemic attunements – Regenerating anthroplogy's form’ is a collective experiment in expanding the expressive and analytic repertoire of anthropology and related disciplines. It features eleven peer‐reviewed research articles published on a standalone website that has been designed, built, and maintained by our editorial collective, independent of Wiley's infrastructure and oversight. The result is a unique off‐grid adventure in academic publi…
Luŋ'thun: Sand, saltwater, and collaborative attunements
This audio‐visual essay works with the epistemic imperatives of our research subject—the sands and saltwater of a small stretch of coastline in northern Australia. Orchestrating a series of sounds and images together with a gentle rhythm of text‐based Yolŋu (human/Indigenous) elaboration, we seek to enable others to attune to a material dynamics of collaboration and co‐creation made manifestly palpable in the kinetic zones of coastal life. Rather…
Form: Anthropology as design
This essay argues for design as an expression of analytic rigour and ethical commitment. It explores what it might mean to ‘write’ in collaboration with the entities and forces from Country, ancestors, oceans, soil, honeyeaters, sound, wild bores, frogs, fire, ash, sand, trees, and echoes, to colour, code, bitrates, cameras, computers, and archives. Every design decision in ‘Epistemic attunements’ was conceptually‐motivated and informed by an ant…
On Behalf of the Living, TonOtto, ChristianSuhr and GaryKildea, 2023, 105 mins. Distributed by Documentary Education Resources, New York. www.der.org
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
Sociology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 works) · History (8 works) · Visual arts (8 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works)