Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 [Review Essay] Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community.
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'Shimmering Screens is a study of the impact of Western technology in (and not necessarily on) a remote Aboriginal community, a memoir of how fieldwork changes the anthropologist, and a meditation on the ways in which Yolngu and balanda (white Australians) can interpenetrate each other’s worlds. Deger, a research fellow in anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney, has written a brilliant book that analyses the ways in which one man, Bangana Wunungmurra, took up the challenge of making video in the Arnhem Land community of Gapuwiyak to reinvigorate Yolngu rom (Law) and pursue a personal redemption.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies Studies in Aboriginal Song : A Special Issue of Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 2 2007 Z1475731 2007 periodical issue (2 issues)

    This special issue focuses on studies in Aboriginal song, resulting from 'research projects that focus on endangered language and music and involved either collaborative work between linguists and musicologists, or work by scholars with training in both disciplines' (1).

    2007
    pg. 175-177
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