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Dr Jason M. Gibson

@jmgibson.bsky.social
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Senior Research Fellow @Deakin University. Anthropology, Museums, Cultural Heritage and enthusiast of arid lands and DIY cultures. ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8254-587X

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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Feeling incredibly grateful that the Australian Research Council (ARC) has supported this Future Fellowship. This community co-designed project will examine the role of ceremonial knowledge in the 21st century. Our work on ceremonial futures with Anmatyerr and Arrernte men can now continue.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A major outcome from my @arc-gov-au.bsky.social DECRA and a collaboration with the senior men of Laramba. www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/...
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Anengkerr-penh/From the Dreaming | National Museum of Australia
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
A wonderful article on our research into the Birrundudu Drawings and their incredible legacy: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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After 80 years, sleuths have unearthed a secret stash of early art and reunited them with family
A stash of more than 800 mysterious drawings has been revealed for the first time, rewriting the timeline of Aboriginal art and reconnecting families with long-lost relatives.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New Paper Alert - 🚨 - co-authored with Joel Liddle: Decolonisation doesn’t Disentangle: anthropological archives and Arrernte knowledge regeneration in Museum History Journal. There are 50 free eprints to download below if you get in quick! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BERF2...
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Decolonisation doesn’t disentangle: anthropological archives and Arrernte knowledge regeneration
Grounded in collaborative research with Arrernte and Anmatyerr people in central Australia who critically interrogate the archives of late nineteenth and early twentieth century anthropologists, th...
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Opening night of the Birrundudu Drawings exhibition. A community-led unveiling of a national treasure. Apart from a handful of drawings, most of the collection has never been seen. Their scale and complexity will transform understandings of Indigenous art and social history.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Always great to be back in Laramba where the arlwengarlpwer (spangled perch) is boss.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🎓 Dr Joel Perrurle Liddle 🎓 and his supervisory team, of which I was honoured to be part of. Wonderful to celebrate his hard won achievement with Dr James Rose and Prof Shawana Andrews.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
‘Humanising Natural History Collections’ workshop, Deakin University Melbourne.
Group of people sitting in front of a large Aboriginal painting.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It was a real treat to talk about the Birrundudu Drawings and anthropology with these two star communicators - Shelley Krape and Amy Carmichael on the best regional radio station in the country, MainFM. Listen to the cracking Drones song at the start: www.mixcloud.com/MainFm/the-n...
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Our book on these incredibly important drawings, their making and legacies is now in physical form! Birrundudu Drawings...John Carty, Jason M. Gibson, Alistair Paterson, Luke Scholes, @Jessyca Hutchens, Stephen Gilchrist. Pre order now: upswellpublishing.com/product/birr....
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Martin Hagan’s art. Australian desert iconography rendered with crushed native grasses and natural pigments.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The Spencer and Gillen: A Journey Through Aboriginal Australia website is up and running again: spencerandgillen.net
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Spencer & Gillen - A journey through Aboriginal Australia
This website showcases notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations and photographs collected during Spencer and Gillen’s studies in anthropology between 1875 and 1912
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🚨🚨 After 7 years of research and 4 years of community consultation a new book emerges. Birrundudu Drawings showcases a body of imagery representing ceremony, country and Dreaming produced by 16 Aboriginal men in 1945. Preorder available now: upswellpublishing.com/product/birr...
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The desert among the snow: how Anmatyerr ceremony men came to create ground paintings in Switzerland theconversation.com/the-desert-a...
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The desert among the snow: how Anmatyerr ceremony men came to create ground paintings in Switzerland
Anmatyerr people live 200 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs. The work of Anmatyerr artists is now on display in Switzerland for the first time.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
New Article on the Future of Connected Museum Collections out now: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The proofs are in for our new paper in Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 12 (2024): 126–141 doi:10.3167/armw.2024.120111
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
An absolute honour to help the Anmatyerr men of central Australia bring their cultural performances to Swiss audience ms at the Fondation Opale.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Work begins on the Anmatyerr @ingkantety.bsky.social ground painting project at Fondation Opale in Lens, Switzerland.
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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
#Anteater figure, 1975-77 Warao artist, El Pajal, Venezuela Carved Balsa wood with inlaid seeds 38.2 x 13.4 x 6.2 cm Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian 26/7561 americanindian.si.edu/collections-... #IndigenousArt #SourhAmericanArt
“Figure made of carved wood depicting an anteater standing on four feet with a long nose, large rounded tail, and inset black and red seeds for eyes.”
“Collection History
Collected by photojournalist Claire James Steinberg during a trip to the Orinoco and Amacuro River delta region between December 1976 and January 1977; donated to NMAI by Claire James Steinberg in 2009.”
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The perfect soundtrack to finishing a writing project.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
As a archive/collections enthusiast and lover of music I can't get enough of the Numero Group. They are an archival record label unearthing and re-releasing 20th century sonic curios and forgotten artists of great diversity. www.gq.com/story/numero...
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How This Cult Record Label Brings Forgotten Music Back from the Dead
Numero Group was founded by Ken Shipley and Rob Sevier, who are part crate-diggers, part forensic scientists who unearth long forgotten music—funk, gospel, country, metal—from decades past. And more r...
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I had the pleasure of lunching with the Dischord Records crew back in the day. Their philosophy and principles had a huge impact. I continue to share their interest in diy culture-making and and archiving. festival.si.edu/blog/fugazi-...
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Back to Base: Fugazi & the D.C. Punk Zine Scene
Fanzines are independent, often highly personal, small-run publications created by fans of a specific subject.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Interesting development in the USA. The Cleveland Museum of Art has installed opaque covers on display cases containing Native American artworks and objects in compliance with the new NAGPRA amendments... www.cleveland.com/news/2024/01...
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Cleveland Museum of Art conceals displays of Native American art in observance of new federal regulations
The federal government is asking museums to remove from view Native American objects until tribes give consent to their display.
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anthony k webster🐿 @ethnopoetics.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Anthropologists still longing for pristine and untouched Native cultures is always a trip (as it was for Radin in the 1930s), there's a kind of country and the city logic to it, those cultures were pristine in 1900 or 1850, always over that last temporal hill
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Now that Bluesky numbers have improved, here’s a recent article I contributed to on the ‘New Protectionism’ in Indigenous collections and archives: publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/as...
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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID. #AcademicSky
A snip of my profile. Banner image incldes Arendt, Durkheim, Fanon and others drawn rouglys on eggs in Black and White. Profile picture is me in front of some autumn leaves. 
Key descriptive text identifies me as a criminologist working on atrocity crime. 
At the bottom, highlighted by a big red arrow is my ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7463-1302A snip from my ORCID profile page - at the left is a list of institutional and other links to social media, including one to Bluesky, highlighted by a big red arrow.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
2024 was big year for fieldwork. Always a thrill to be mapping sites in central Australia amongst the spinifex.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Last weekend, Museums Victoria's Coburg storage facility was flooded and collection items literally washed out onto the streets: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Flood ‘like a scene from Titanic’, Sammy J says as Museums Victoria calls for help retrieving artefacts
Burst water pipe washed fossils, rocks and other specimens of historical value down Coburg street on Saturday night
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ingkantety.bsky.social @ingkantety.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The Anmatyerr ingkantety team are heading to Switzerland in a few weeks to make a ground painting. Stay tuned!
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The AHA has joined the exodus from the bad place and has set up here (probably in both places for a while) - please follow and share for Aust History news:
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
More work to be done but we have begun mapping a song from Anmatyerr Country.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
ANU Seminar on ceremony being worked up for publication now… rsha.cass.anu.edu.au/events/anmat...
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Anmatyerr Ceremony in the Twenty-first Century: Struggles Beyond Continuity
In recent decades, ceremonial objects and recordings made by anthropologists have been gradually making their way back to Anmatyerr communities in central Australia. The reintegration of this material...
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Harvesting anteth mpay-mpay (common everlasting daisy) for an Anmatyerr art installation project. Stay tuned.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
The New Protectionism: Risk Aversion and Access to Indigenous Heritage Records - Published in @AandM_Journal and can be found here: publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/as...
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
The Ingkantety: Following Anmatyerr Law website is now live. Provides a snapshot of #Anmatyerr engagement with #museums #archives and preserving unique Indigenous #intangible and #tangible cultural heritage. ingkantety.org.au
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Working with Peter Ywekel to record the shield design and story for this #Anmatyerr place, Marleyelkarem. It was a good day.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
Though unnamed in the original 1899 Spencer and Gillen publication, this old man was Kangeye Pengarte, from the Alice Springs area. Not sure that his life was that 'simple', or that he was amongst the 'first men'...
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
Proud to share our Ingkantety website which details important work recording Anmatyerr cultural traditions in central Australia: ingkantety.org.au
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Expert in a dying field, or dying in a field of expertise.
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Back on Anmatyerr country at Arwerlt Atwaty.
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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
4 year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Bergen, Norway (project "Contested frontiers of settler states": www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral fellow on the ERC project "Contested frontiers of settler states" (ConFront) (254642) ...
Job title: Postdoctoral fellow on the ERC project "Contested frontiers of settler states" (ConFront) (254642), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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Dr Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
This podcast is great. A deep dive into an era of the little-documented 90s underground post-punk DIY culture that shaped me more than I realised. www.washedupemo.com
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