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    A History of photography in Indonesia
    (Amsterdam University Press, 2024-01-03) Brian Arnold (บรรณาธิการ).
    As a former colonized nation, Indonesia has a unique place in the history of photography. A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age looks at the development of photography from the beginning and traces its uses in Indonesia from its invention to the present day. The Dutch colonial government first brought the medium to the East Indies in the 1840s and immediately recognized its potential in serving the colonial apparatus. As the country grew and changed, so too did the medium. Photography was not only an essential tool of colonialism, but it also became part of the movement for independence, a voice for reformasi, an agent for advocating democracy, and is now available to anyone with a phone. This book gathers essays by leading artists, scholars, and curators from around the world who have worked with photography in Indonesia and have traced the evolution of the medium from its inception to the present day, addressing the impact of photography on colonialism, independence, and democratization.
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    Archiving Cultures
    (Routledge, 2024-01-02) Jeannette A. Bastian.
    Archiving Cultures defines and models the concept of cultural archives, focusing on how diverse communities express and record their heritage and collective memory and why and how these often-intangible expressions are archival records. Analysis of oral traditions, memory texts and performance arts demonstrate their relevance as records of their communities. Key features of this book include definitions of cultural heritage and archival heritage with an emphasis on intangible cultural heritage. Aspects of cultural heritage such as oral traditions, performance arts, memory texts and collective memory are placed within the context of records and archives. It presents strategies for reconciling intangible and tangible cultural expressions with traditional archival theory and practice and offers both analog and digital models for constructing cultural archives through examples and vignettes.
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    Bangkok Shophouses
    (ภาพพิมพ์, 2024-07-11) ศุภชัย วงศ์นพดลเดชา, Louis Sketcher
    เพราะตึกแถวมีเรื่องราว... มันบรรจุประวัติศาสตร์ผ่านองค์ประกอบทางสถาปัตยกรรมผ่านร่องรอยคราบเก่า และยังมีหลากหลายเรื่องเล่า ผ่านวิถีชีวิตของชาวย่านนั้นๆ หนังสือ Bangkok Shophouses จะชวนคุณมาร่วมสังเกต และทำความรู้จักกับเรื่องราวเหล่านี้ผ่านภาพวาดจากดินสอ, ปากกา, และสีน้ำ ของตึกแถวในแต่ละย่านของเมืองเก่ากรุงเทพฯ เพื่อให้คุณได้ดื่มด่ำกับเมืองแห่งนี้ในอีกมุมมองหนึ่ง และอาจจะเป็นแรงบันดาลใจให้คุณ ได้ออกเดินทางตามรอยตึกแถวที่อยู่ในหนังสือเล่มนี้หรือมองหาตึกโปรดในมุมมองของคุณเองก็เป็นได้
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    Bookstores
    ( 2024-07-12) Stuart Husband ; Horst A. Friedrichs ; Horst A. Friedrichs, photographer ; Nora Krug, writer of foreword
    "Bookstores are treasure troves of knowledge and ideas, invaluable for the imagination, and often reflect their owners' personalities in ways internet behemoths could never re-create. In this book, photographer Horst A. Friedrichs opens the door to the world of bricks-and-mortar bookstores, showcasing their variety, quirkiness, and vitality with lavish photography. It celebrates the passion and commitment of the owners with interviews and anecdotes. Explore William Stout Books, a specialty store for architecture and art books in San Francisco, and Baldwin's Book Barn in Pennsylvania, a 5-story bookstore housed in a dairy barn open since the mid-1940s. Discover Gay's the Word, the UK's first and only dedicated LGBTQI bookshop and Livraria Lello, whose Art Deco interior is a temple to reading in the middle of Porto, Portugal. Some of the featured bookstores specialize in a certain genre, some are massive with vaulted ceilings, some are tiny and filled to the brim with books, some are in historic buildings that evoke a different time and place, and some are brand new, hightech, architect-designed spaces. What all the bookstores have in common is that they are all dedicated to spreading the written word to their communities." -- Amazon.com.
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    Burmese
    (Hong Kong University Press, 2024) Ward Keeler ,Allen Lyan.
    Appropriate for use by students at varying levels of competence, Burmese: A Cultural Approach provides a thorough and systematic introduction to the Burmese writing system, along with a series of true-to-life conversations. The first part of the book offers an introduction to the Burmese sound system, while the second section focuses on conversation, including extensive annotations that illustrate grammatical patterns, characteristic turns of phrase, and typical habits of social interaction. Employing an anthropological approach to language learning, the book is intended to provide students with useful insights into how cultural understandings, not just grammar, shape what gets said in Burmese. The book is enhanced by audio files that can be accessed on a companion website that were recorded by native speakers for all the written symbols, dialogues, and exercises in the book
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    Colonies, Cults and Evolution
    (Cambridge University Press, 2024-01-02) David Amigoni
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    Convivial toolbox
    (BIS, 2024-01-02) Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders & Pieter Jan Stappers.
    This book introduces an emerging domain of design research that is of immense interest today, not only to the academic design research community but also to design practitioners and to those in the business community charged with the development of human-centred products, systems, services and/or environments. Generative design research is an approach to bring the people we serve through design directly into the design process to ensure that we can meet their needs and dreams for the future. The first part of the book covers the underlying principles of generative design research, the second part presents cases and the third part is the how-to section. Throughout the book, 50 contributions from various people in the field which show how the techniques are used across disciplines. The primary users of the book are university students in a different departments such as design, psychology, marketing, business, communications etc. It is also aimed at research practitioners and practicing designers.
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    Creative methods for human geographers
    (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024-01-02) Nadia von Benzon, Mark Holton, Catherine Wilkinson and et
    Introducing a broad range of innovative and creative qualitative methods, this accessible book shows you how to use them in research project while providing straightforward advice on how to approach every step of the process; from planning and organisation to writing up and disseminating research, offering Demonstration of creative methods using both primary or secondary data. Practical guidance on overcoming common hurdles like getting ethical clearance and conducting a risk assessment. Encouragement to reflect critically on the processes involved in research. The authors provide a complete toolkit for conducting research in this field, while ensuring the most cutting-edge methods are unintimidating to the reader.
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    Design is storytelling
    (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2023-06-07) Ellen Lupton ; Pamela Horn ; Matthew Kennedy ; Brooke Thyng ; Jason Gottlieb ; Morcos Key
    Good design, like good storytelling, brings ideas to life. Design Is Storytelling is a playbook for creative thinking, showing designers how to use narrative techniques to create satisfying graphics, products, services, and experiences. Whether crafting a digital app or a data-rich publication, designers invite people to enter a scene and explore what's there. An intriguing logo, page layout, or public space uses form and communication to lead users on dynamic journeys.
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    Design is storytelling
    (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2017) Lupton, Ellen
    "This book explores connections between storytelling and design. It examines the psychology of visual communication from a narrative point of view." -- Publisher's description.
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    EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND MUSEUMS
    (Berghahn Books, 2024-01-03) Stylianou-Lambert ; Alexandra Bounia
    How can emerging technologies display, reveal and negotiate difficult, dissonant, negative or undesirable heritage? Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonstrate how “awkward”, contested, and rarely discussed subjects and stories are treated – or can be potentially treated - in a museum setting with the use of the latest technology.
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    From Small Wins to Sweeping Change
    (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022, 2024-01-03) Priya Frank ; Theresa Sotto
    How does a diverse community thrive in spaces that were designed to be exclusionary? Museums--with histories tied to colonial violence and racist practices and whose survival is largely reliant on the generosity of wealthy donors--were not built to be inclusive. Yet many museums' missions and the people who bring these missions to life have egalitarian aims. In recent years museum practitioners across the country have been proactively confronting our histories of colonization and exclusion and advancing equity and inclusion. Museums of all types have formed cross-departmental teams to critique their internal practices, review hiring processes, and ultimately foster a more diverse and inclusive environment for both visitors and staff alike. But how do such initiatives get off the ground? How do individuals build support among all stakeholders and successfully advocate for new positions, programs, and cross-departmental working groups? How can colleagues work together across departments to foster more inclusive museum practices? This book from the American Alliance of Museums brings together a collection of tools, solutions, and models from DEAI practitioners who have actively worked together towards institutional change. With 60% BIPOC authorship, this book will provide hope and inspiration, as well as concrete strategies for museum workers all over the country who are achieving small wins and fostering sweeping change in the predominantly white cultural sector through innovation, collaboration, and courage. This is the first book to focus specifically on collaborative and inclusive practices in equity and anti-racism work in different types of museums. Its case studies demonstrate the importance of relationship building, authentic connections, and developing foundations together over time, providing a much-needed resource for museum professionals at every level who are grappling with inequities that are pervasive in museums.
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    From the Yellow River to the Chao Phraya River
    (Thai Red Cross Society, 2005) Prapassorn Sevikul
    It was in mid 2003 that Kasikornbank initiated the project "From the Yellow River to the Chao Phraya River". With the cooperation of a team of authorities on the Thai-Chinese relations, data and information were collected from books, research papers and other reference sources, as well as actual field studies in Thailand and China. The source materials compiled covered the development of relations between Thai and Chinese from their beginnings, portraying the ways of life, arts, culture, traditions, ideas and beliefs, all of which have played a role in the successful coexistence of the Thai and Chinese.
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    Ghosts of the new city
    (University of Hawaii Press, 2014, 2024-01-02) Andrew Alan Johnson
    Chiang Mai (literally, “new city”) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In Ghosts of the New City, Andrew Alan Johnson shows how the trauma of the crash, brought back vividly by the political crisis of 2006, haunts efforts to remake the city. For many Chiang Mai residents, new developments harbor the seeds of the crash, which manifest themselves in anxious stories of ghosts and criminals who conceal themselves behind the city’s progressive veneer. Hopes for rebirth and fears of decline have their roots in Thai conceptions of progress, which draw from Buddhist and animist ideas of power and sacrality. Cities, Johnson argues, were centers where the charismatic power of kings and animist spirits were grounded; these entities assured progress by imbuing the space with sacred power that would avert disaster. Johnson traces such magico-religious conceptions of potency and space from historical records through present-day popular religious practice and draws parallels between these and secular attempts at urban revitalization. Through a detailed ethnography of the contested ways in which academics, urban activists, spirit mediums, and architects seek to revitalize the flagging economy and infrastructure of Chiang Mai, Johnson finds that alongside the hope for progress there exists a discourse about urban ghosts, deadly construction sites, and the lurking anxiety of another possible crash, a discourse that calls into question history’s upward trajectory. In this way, Ghosts of the New City draws new connections between urban history and popular religion that have implications far beyond Southeast Asia.
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    How to tell a story
    (Crown, 2024-02-14) Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, and Kate Tellers ; [foreword by Padma Lakshmi ; introduction by Chenjerai Kumanyika].
    Over the past twenty-five years, the directors of The Moth have worked with people from all walks of life—including astronauts, hairdressers, rock stars, a retired pickpocket, high school students, and Nobel Prize winners—to develop true personal stories that have moved and delighted live audiences and listeners of The Moth’s Peabody Award–winning radio hour and podcast. A leader in the modern storytelling movement, The Moth inspires thousands of people around the globe to share their stories each year. Now, with How to Tell a Story, The Moth will help you learn how to uncover and craft your own unique stories, like Moth storytellers Mike Birbiglia, Rosanne Cash, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Gilbert, Padma Lakshmi, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Hasan Minhaj, Tig Notaro, Boots Riley, Betty Reid Soskin, John Turturro, and more. Whether your goal is to make it to the Moth stage, deliver the perfect wedding toast, wow clients at a business dinner, give a moving eulogy, ace a job interview, be a hit at parties, change the world, or simply connect more deeply to those around you, stories are essential. Sharing secrets of The Moth’s time-honed process and using examples from beloved storytellers, a team of Moth directors will show you how to
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    Imperial Creatures
    (Singapore: NUS press, 2019, 2024-05-18) Timothy P.Barnard
    The environmental turn in the humanities and social sciences has meant a new focus on the history of animals. This is one of the first books to look across species at animals in a colonial, urban society. If imperialism is a series of power relationships, it involves not only the subjugation of human communities but also animals. What was the relationship between these two processes in colonial Singapore? How did various interactions with animals enable changes in interactions between people, and the expression of power in human terms? The imposition of imperial power relationships was a process that was often complex and messy, and it led to the creation of new communities throughout the world, including the colonial port city of Singapore. Through a multidisciplinary consideration of fauna, this book weaves together a series of tales to document how animals were cherished, slaughtered, monitored and employed in a colonial society, to provide insight into how imperial rule was imposed on an island in Southeast Asia. Fauna and their histories of interacting with humans, thus, become useful tools for understanding our past, revealing the effects of establishing a colony on the biodiversity of a region, and the institutions that quickly transformed it. All animals, including humans, have been creatures of imperialism in Singapore. Their stories teach us lessons about the structures that upheld such a society and how it developed over time.
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    Journal of the National Taiwan Museum
    (National Taiwan Museum, 2022-12) National Taiwan Museum ; Yu-Chwen Hsu ; Hsin Yeh ; Jyun-Wei Chen
    Eocanthecona parva (Distant, 1902) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) is a common species of predatory stink bug in Taiwan. This study collected a fertilized female of E. parva in the field, which laid an egg mass (91 eggs) afterwards. After the eggs hatched, the nymphs were reared until they grew into adults. In the meantime we observed and recorded the development and morphological features of eggs and nymphs as well as what the nymphs fed on. It took a total of 36 days approximately for the eggs to hatch and develop into adults. The eggs hatched approximately 8 days after being laid, while the nymphal stage lasted for 28 days. The nymphs of various instars can be distinguished based on the following morphological features: (1) the first instar: the head bended downward, and the thorax was black; (2) the second instar: the thorax was black, and the lateral margins of the pronotum were wrnte; (3) the third instar: the thorax was black, and the lateral margins of the thorax and abdomen were white; (4) the fourth instar: the thorax was black, the lateral margins of the thorax and abdomen were white, and the wing-pads of the mesonotum developed to reach the posterior margin of the metanotum, while the wing-pads of the metanotum were undeveloped; (5) the fifth instar: the pronotum was red, the lateral margins of the abdomen were white, the wing-pads of the mesonotum developed to reach the third abdominal segment, and the wing-pads of the metanotum also developed. There were 83 hatchlings and 46 of them grew into adults. Except four adults that molted incompletely, there were 42 (19 females and 23 males) which eclosed successfully. The average body length of the females was greater than that of the males, and it took the former longer to develop into the adulthood than did the latter. The nymphs of E. parva fed on a number of crop pests of Lepidoptera provided. It's worth testing the potential of applying E. parva in the control of these pests in future studies.
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    Journal of the National Taiwan Museum
    (National Taiwan Museum, 2023-03) National Taiwan Museum ; Yu-Chwen Hsu ; Hsin Yeh ; Jyun-Wei Chen
    A newly naturalized genus and species, Sidastrum paniculatum (L.) Fryxell (Malvoideae Burnett, Malvaceae), native to the New World Tropics, was found in Qiaotou District, Kaohsiung City, southern Taiwan. The genus Sidastrum Baker f. is closely related to the genus Sida L., and its schizocarp has only one seed per mericarp. The genus Sidastrum can be differentiated from the genus Sida by its calyx without ribs and relatively fragile mericarps. A detailed morphological description and photographs of this newly naturalized species have been provided to facilitate identification.
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    Law-bubulu
    (Taiwan Museum Foundation, 2022-11-17) Li Zining
    This exhibition, "The Precious of Rukai People, Homecoming Exhibition of Early Artifacts of the Budai Co he Collection of NTM," consists of 110 items. They from three different sources, including NTM (64 pcs), Rukai Museum of Budai County (32 pcs), and local villages requisition (14 pcs). This assemblage amounts to be the largest feature exhibition of Rukai artifacts in recent years. Moreover, it's the first homecoming exhibition that aims to embrace traditional Rukai artifacts as the main feature, thus bearing profound significance. The exhibition consists of six main topics pertaining to different aspects of material culture of Rukai people, such as the symbolism of lily, weaponry of men, textiles and decorations made by women, household posts and eves, rattan basketry, and ritual objects. As a result, it highlights the broader spectrum of material culture of Rukai people from different sources, and also emphasizes the values of re-presentation and rediscovery of the conventional wisdom of Rukai people. NTM and Rukai Museum of Budai County have taken four years (2017-21) to collaborate on the planning of this exhibition. It's a rather long process of exhibition-making, relying upon the sharing and exchange of ideas between the local interface and the national museum facility regarding the knowledge of indigenous culture and the experience of approaching relevant objects. This emphasis on equal sharing and the exchange and earning during the whole collaboration process is also noting for this exhibition.
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    London Shopfronts
    (Prestel, 2024-07-12) Rosie Hewitson ; Joel Holland (Illustration)
    Tje first time i visit London, from my home in New York City, was in 2006; I was there to prep for exhibition of my drawings in Clerlenwell. I stayed ad the posh ZetterHotel for afew days and walked for miles (and kilometers) by myself, and with my friends Dan and Helen, checking out the city. I remember going to the Fryer's Delight, Ineternational Magic, the Columbia Road Flower Market, The old Curiosity Shop, walking through Holland Park, and more. I loved it all: the food, the shoes, the energy of the history, and the people from all around the world.
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    Museum-Making in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
    (Routledge, 2022) Paquette, Jonathan
    Building on archival work undertaken in France and feldwork undertaken in Southeast Asia, Museun-Making in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia provides a critical analysis of museum histories and development in three former colo- This work documents the development of museums in French Indochina (1862-1954), specifically Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The book explores the colonial culture of exhibition, traces the growth of museum collections through archaeological missions to Indochina and other parts of Asia, and examines the role of museums in the cultural life of this colonial society. In particular, the author re-contextualizes the role and part played by colonial museums in the implementation of heritage policies during the colonial era in French Indochina, a dimension that is often overlooked. Additionally, the book addresses the effects that the Second World War, the Vichy Regime, and the Japanese occupation had on these cultural institutions. The transforma- tion of these museums in post-independence Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia is also discussed. Providing comparisons with other colonial and post-colonial experiences, Museum-Making in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia will be a valuable resource for researchers in museum and heritage studies. It will also appeal to research- ers and graduate students engaged in the study of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and development and international studies. Jonathan Paquette is full professor at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa (Canada). He is also holder of the International Francophonie Research Chair on Cultural Heritage Policies. nial territories.
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    Museums as agents of change
    (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024-01-03) Mike Murawski.
    Museums everywhere have the potential to serve as agents of change—bringing people together, contributing to local communities, and changing people’s lives. So how can we, as individuals, radically expand the work of museums to live up to this potential? How can we more fiercely recognize the meaningful work that museums are doing to enact change around the relevant issues in our communities? How can we work together to build a stronger culture of equity and care within museums ? Questions like these are increasingly vital for all museum professionals to consider, no matter what your role is within your institution. They are also important questions for all of us to be thinking about more deeply as citizens and community members. This book is about the work we need to do to become changemakers and demand that that our museums take action toward positive social change and bring people together into a more just, equitable, compassionate, and connected society. It is a journey toward tapping the energies within all of us to make change happen and proactively shape a new future.
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    Museums, moralities and humanrights
    (Routledge, 2017) Richard Sandell
    This book explores how museums, galleries and heritage sites of all kinds, through the narratives they construct and publicly present, can shape the moral and political climate within which human rights are experienced. Through a series of richly-drawn cases, which focus on gender diversity and same-sex love and desire, Richard Sandell examines the ways in which museums are implicated in the ongoing struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex human rights. Museums, Moralities and Human Rights brings together for the first time the perspectives not only of those who work in, govern, fund and visit museums but also those of rights activists and campaigners who, at key moments in their struggle, have turned their attention to museums to advance their cause. Offering new insights into how human rights are continually fought for, realised and refused, this volume makes the case for museums of all kinds to take up an active, mindful and purposive engagement with contemporary human rights concerns.
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    Nature's Colony
    (Singapore: NUS press, 2016, 2024-05-18) Timothy P.Barnard
    Established in 1859, Singapore’s Botanic Gardens has served as a park for Singaporeans and visitors, a scientific institution, and a testing ground for tropical plantation crops. Each function has its own story, while the Gardens also fuel an underlying narrative of the juncture of administrative authority and the natural world. Created to help exploit natural resources for the British Empire, the Gardens became contested ground in conflicts involving administrators and scientists that reveal shifting understandings of power, science and nature in Singapore and in Britain. This continued after independence, when the Gardens featured in the “greening” of the nation-state, and became Singapore’s first World Heritage Site. Positioning the Singapore Botanic Gardens alongside the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and gardens in India, Ceylon, Mauritius and the West Indies, this book tells the story of nature’s colony—a place where plants were collected, classified and cultivated to change our understanding of the region and world.