TY - JOUR
T1 - Seeing the invisible
T2 - Yolngu video as revelatory ritual
AU - Deger, Jennifer
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2007 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/3
Y1 - 2007/3
N2 - 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. The paper explores how, under Yolngu direction, the video camera becomes a powerful technology for mediating the relationship between the inside and outside of things, the sacred and the public, the invisible and the visible, thereby challenging conventional Western understandings of image-making and spectatorship, representation, and "cultural resistance".
AB - 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. The paper explores how, under Yolngu direction, the video camera becomes a powerful technology for mediating the relationship between the inside and outside of things, the sacred and the public, the invisible and the visible, thereby challenging conventional Western understandings of image-making and spectatorship, representation, and "cultural resistance".
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34248356113&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/08949460601152765
DO - 10.1080/08949460601152765
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34248356113
VL - 20
SP - 103
EP - 121
JO - Visual Anthropology
JF - Visual Anthropology
SN - 0894-9468
IS - 2-3
ER -