The state of Terengganu has been long recognised as Malaysia’s national capital of brassware handicrafts. Here, traditional knowledge and wisdom are made manifest by skilled artisans who use local materials to create culturally distinctive products. These products and practices …
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This case study of the use of hospital accident and emergency records to safeguard children was triggered by Lord Laming’s inquiry into the care of Victoria Climbié, his follow up report, and government legislation since 1948. Research on the use of documentation for safeguardin…
This qualitative study, carried out in an early learning center in an international school in Japan, aims to examine the place, meaning, and practice of assessment of young children’s learning through the methodology of documentation as defined and developed by the educators of …
This project attempts to offer an extended discussion related to objects as an attachment, as body extension, as interlocutors in how the individual (the body) experience the world. It refers to the physical representation and the many attempts to understand the transformation o…
This dissertation is an historical ethnography of photography as a technology of vision and memory in post-colonial, urban Java. Based on ethnographic and oral history research in Yogyakarta, Central Java, the dissertation traces the multiple paths of a global technology as it h…
This dissertation is a documentation of Sula [ISO-639-3 szn, mqc; Glottocode sula1245, mang1408]. Sula is a critically to severely endangered language of North Maluku, Indonesia. This dissertation includes: demographic and ethnographic information about the community, the first …
The vascular flora described here covers ~2,295 km2 (~886 mi2) of the Selkirk mountains that lie in the Idaho Panhandle, covering an elevational range from 540–2330 m (1,770–7,670 ft.). The majority of the mountain range is underlain by granitic rock of the Kaniksu Batholith, an…
S.H.A.M (the Syrian House of Architectural Memory) is an acronym to the word ash- Shām, or Sham which means the Levant, in general, and Damascus, in particular in the local spoken tongue.
Statement of Problem or Issue: The Wilcox Museum at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas is in need of digitizing and organizing all of their paperwork from 1888 to current (2021).A majority of their documentation has begun to fade with time and they risk losing the hist…
Nothing to See Here: Stages for Latent Revolutions. In Genesis 2:7 (19822), God instructs Adam and Eve: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Genesis 1982:2). The Bible later st…
Scholarship has put “the recorded” and “the live” in a state of constant tension, in which archive was posited in opposition to performance, or embodied performance against archive. Here, the archive is posited as a lasting receptacle of artifacts from the past, producing histor…