Research interests
Australian Aboriginal ceremony; the relationships between ethnographic collections and contemporary life; fieldwork and ethnographic method; interculturality, museums and repatriation.
Affiliations
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islaner Studies
Research Associate, Museums Victoria
Honorary Research Associate, University of Western Australia
Knowledge areas
Anthropology, Aboriginal Studies, History, Indigenous Studies, Museology.
Awards
Monash University 'Historical Studies' PhD Prize 2017
Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria’s Alpha Prize, 2017.
Publications
Ceremony Men Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection
Jason GIBSON
(2020), Albany, N.Y., A1
Deciphering Arrernte Archives: The Intermingling of Textual and Living Knowledge
Jason Gibson, Shaun Angeles, Joel Liddle
(2020), pp. 29-45, Archival returns : Central Australia and beyond, Sydney, N.S.W., B1
Cultivating the "Proletarian Outlook": towards a history of the left in central Australia, 1920-75
Jason Gibson
(2020), pp. 55-81, Labour History: a journal of labour and social history, Liverpool, Eng., C1
The last Jeraeil of Gippsland: rediscovering an Aboriginal ceremonial site
Jason Gibson, Russell Mullett
(2020), Vol. 67, pp. 551-577, Ethnohistory, Durham, N.C., C1
Returning recordings of songs that persist: The Anmatyerr traditions of akiw and anmanty
Jason Gibson
(2019), Vol. 18, pp. 65-89, Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond, Honolulu, H.I., B1
J Gibson
(2019), Vol. 25, pp. 537-552, International journal of heritage studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
J Gibson
(2019), Vol. 34, pp. 240-256, Museum management and curatorship, Abingdon, Eng., C1
'Factotum and friend': anthropologists, informants and ethnographic exchange in central Australia
J Gibson
(2019), pp. 1-29, History and anthropology, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Conversations on the Frontier: Finding the Dialogic in Nineteenth-century Anthropological Archives
Jason Gibson, Helen Gardner
(2019), Vol. 88, pp. 47-65, History Workshop Journal, Oxford, Eng., C1
J Gibson, L Hercus
(2018), Vol. 42, pp. 175-210, Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, Stepney, S.Aust., C1
Listening to the Anmatyerr Song Recordings of T.G.H. Strehlow
Jason Gibson
(2018), Vol. 41, pp. 3-15, The Artefact, Melbourne, Vic., C1
'Only the best is good enough for eternity': revisiting the ethnography of T. G. H. Strehlow
J Gibson
(2017), pp. 243-271, German Ethnography in Australia, Canberra, A.C.T., B1
New possum found!: Photographic influences on Anmatyerr art
J Gibson, J Kean
(2016), Vol. 9, pp. 1-20, electronic Melbourne art journal, Melbourne, Vic., C1-1
Southern anthropology - a history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai
H Gardner, P McConvell
(2015), Basingstoke, Eng., A1
J Gibson
(2015), Vol. 85, pp. 165-182, Oceania, Chichester, Eng., C1-1
Outback palms: Aboriginal myth meets DNA analysis
D Bowman, J Gibson, T Kondo
(2015), Vol. 520, pp. 33-33, Nature, London, Eng., C1
J Gibson, P Batty
(2014), Vol. 5, pp. 29-48, Corpora ethnographica online Strategien der Digitalisierung kultureller Archive und ihrer Präsentation im Internet, Münster, Germany, B1-1
Addressing the Arrernte: FJ Gillen's 1896 Engwura speech
J Gibson
(2013), pp. 57-72, Australian Aboriginal studies, Acton, A.C.T., C1-1
'The ablest Australian anthropologists': two early anthropologists and Oxford
A Petch, J Gibson
(2013), Vol. 5, pp. 60-85, Journal of the anthropological society of Oxford, Oxford, Eng., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Howitt & Fison's anthropology: using new methods to reveal hidden riches
A/Prof Helen Gardner, Dr Rachel Hendery, Dr Patrick McConvell, Dr Stephen Morey, Dr Timothy Pilbrow, Mr Paul Paton, Dr Christina Eira, Phillip Batty, Ms Mary Morris, Dr Jason Gibson
ARC Linkage - Projects
- 2021: $18,181
- 2019: $75,765
- 2018: $145,564
- 2017: $150,193
- 2016: $61,528
Collecting at the Crossroads: Anthropology, Art & Cultural Change (1939-85)
Dr Jason Gibson, Alistair Paterson, Prof John Carty, Ms Carly Lane
ARC Linkage - Projects
- 2021: $134,639
Other Public Sector Funding
Howitt & Fison's anthropology: using new methods to reveal hidden riches
A/Prof Helen Gardner, Dr Rachel Hendery, Dr Patrick McConvell, Dr Stephen Morey, Dr Timothy Pilbrow, Mr Paul Paton, Dr Christina Eira, Phillip Batty, Ms Mary Morris, Dr Jason Gibson
- 2019: $10,000
- 2018: $10,000
- 2017: $10,000
Industry and Other Funding
Returning the Birrundudu Drawings
Dr Jason Gibson
- 2019: $14,157
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report