Performing Silat In Australia A Cultural Heritage Approach Uum Press

Author : Amirul Husni Affifudin
Publisher : UUM Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789672486572

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Performing Silat in Australia: A Cultural Heritage Approach (UUM Press) by Amirul Husni Affifudin Pdf

Have you ever dreamed of living in foreign and faraway places? Have you ever wondered how, in such places, your cultural identity and your sense of self would endure? Malaysian students have been organising cultural festivals in the land, Down Under for more than 20 years. These festivals play host to cultural heritage performances that represent the various ethnicities found in the Malaysian homeland. However, very little is known about the way these diasporic performances differ from those in the homeland, and whether these differences can adversely affect the Malaysian identity they are intended to represent. This book presents the role of intangible cultural heritage performances in developing a sense of identity amongst diasporic communities by focusing on the martial art performance of Silat at three Malaysian festivals in Australia. The martial art of Silat is acknowledged in Malaysia as a Malay cultural heritage and a Malaysian national heritage. Silat contains the typical fighting skills and strategies that can be found in other martial arts. However, the culture of Silat also has the element of performance. In Malaysia, Silat is traditionally performed either in private or public contexts. As a Silat practitioner, I have personally experienced performing Silat in my Malaysian homeland and in the diasporic environment of Australia. Using participant observation in Melbourne, my own participation as a Silat performer in Sydney and Brisbane, together with numerous interviews with other performers, members of the audience, festival attendees and festival organisers, this book reveals how the performance of Silat in Malaysian festivals reflects the diasporic and multicultural identities of Malaysian communities in Australia. The information in this book provides refreshing insights into the martial art of Silat from a personal as well as diasporic perspective.

Author : Karol Jan Borowiecki,Neil Forbes,Antonella Fresa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319295442

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Cultural Heritage in a Changing World by Karol Jan Borowiecki,Neil Forbes,Antonella Fresa Pdf

The central purpose of this collection of essays is to make a creative addition to the debates surrounding the cultural heritage domain. In the 21st century the world faces epochal changes which affect every part of society, including the arenas in which cultural heritage is made, held, collected, curated, exhibited, or simply exists. The book is about these changes; about the decentring of culture and cultural heritage away from institutional structures towards the individual; about the questions which the advent of digital technologies is demanding that we ask and answer in relation to how we understand, collect and make available Europe’s cultural heritage. Cultural heritage has enormous potential in terms of its contribution to improving the quality of life for people, understanding the past, assisting territorial cohesion, driving economic growth, opening up employment opportunities and supporting wider developments such as improvements in education and in artistic careers. Given that spectrum of possible benefits to society, the range of studies that follow here are intended to be a resource and stimulus to help inform not just professionals in the sector but all those with an interest in cultural heritage.

Author : Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015019854747

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Author : Geok Bee Teh,Siew Chee Choy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811042416

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This book consists of a collection of selected papers presented at the TARC International Conference 2016 held from 17 to 18 October, 2016. It offers a tool for empowering schools and teachers as a way forward for transforming education.

Author : Paul Lynch,Alison J. McIntosh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134030286

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This is the first book to give recognition to this distinct, economically important and expanding form of tourism business by, bringing together recent and international research on this common form of commercial tourism accommodation.

Author : Sophie Lemière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Democratization
ISBN : 9670630177

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Author : Maznah Mohamad
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789811520938

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The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life by Maznah Mohamad Pdf

This book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia. It elaborates on how elements of theology, sacred space, resources, and their interactivity with secular instruments such as legislative, electoral, and new social technological platforms are all instrumentally employed to consolidate a divine bureaucracy. The book makes the point that religious social movements and political parties are only few of the important agents of Islamisation in society. The other is the modern and secular state structure itself. Weber’s legal rational bureaucracy or Hegel’s ethical bureaucracy predominantly characterises a modern feature of governmentality. In this instance an Islamic bureaucracy is advantageously situated not only within an ambit of modernity and therefore legality, but divinity and therefore sacrality as well. This positioning gives religious state agents more salience than any other form of bureaucracy leading to their unquestioned authority in the current contexts of societies with Muslim majority rule. One of the requisites of this condition is the homogenisation of Islam followed by ring-fencing of its constituents. The latter can involve contestations with women, other genders, ‘secular’ Muslims, non-Muslims as well as dissenting Muslims with their differing truthful ‘Islams’.

Author : Antônio Márcio Tavares Thomé,Rafael Garcia Barbastefano,Luiz Felipe Scavarda,João Carlos Gonçalves dos Reis,Marlene Paula Castro Amorim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030569204

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Industrial Engineering and Operations Management by Antônio Márcio Tavares Thomé,Rafael Garcia Barbastefano,Luiz Felipe Scavarda,João Carlos Gonçalves dos Reis,Marlene Paula Castro Amorim Pdf

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Author : Jill McKeough,Andrew Stewart
Publisher : Tolley
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043592364

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Intellectual Property in Australia by Jill McKeough,Andrew Stewart Pdf

Comprehensive textbook guide to the legal issues in the increasingly important area of intellectual property. The authors cover questions related to copyright, patents, trade marks, employment and contracts. Acts as a reference to the major case law as well as raising more philosophical questions. McKeough and Andrew are senior lecturers in law at universities in NSW.

Author : Roaimah Omar,Hasan Bahrom,Geraldine de Mello
Publisher : Springer
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812874290

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This timely book explores how the Malays and Muslims in general are faced with challenges in the fields of business, economy and politics, in the modern era of globalisation. These research findings can help the Muslim community to enhance international integration, particularly in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. In this work, scholarly and expert authors explore Islamic perspectives on communication, art and culture, business, and law and policy. They respond to the need to uphold and strengthen the culture, arts and heritage of the Malays. Readers are invited to explore the challenges for the Malay and Muslim world and to evolve strategies to ensure competitiveness, dynamism and sustainability. Topics such as Islamophobia, drug trafficking, savings behaviours and the role of social media are addressed. These reviewed papers were presented at the International Conference on Islamic Business, Art, Culture & Communication 2014, held in Melaka, Malaysia. They have the potential to strengthen aspects of Islamic economy and leadership, if translated into action plans. This book represents essential reading for scholars of Islamic studies and will be of interest to those examining Southeast Asia and the Malay world.

Author : Marisa O. Ensor,Elżbieta M. Goździak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319406916

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Children and Forced Migration by Marisa O. Ensor,Elżbieta M. Goździak Pdf

This book responds to the reality that children and youth constitute a disproportionately large percentage of displaced populations worldwide. It demonstrates how their hopes and aspirations reflect the transient nature of their age group, and often differ from those of their elders. It also examines how they face additional difficulties due to the inconsistent definition and uneven implementation of the traditional ‘durable solutions’ to forced migration implemented by national governments and international assistance agencies. The authors use empirical research findings and robust policy analyses of cases of child displacement across the globe to make their central argument: that the particular challenges and opportunities that displaced children and youth face must be investigated and factored into relevant policy and practice, promoting more sustainable and durable solutions in the process. This interdisciplinary edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of forced migration studies, development, conflict and peace-building and youth studies, along with policy-makers, children's rights organizations and NGOs.

Author : Peter E Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135083243

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Tourism: A Community Approach (RLE Tourism) by Peter E Murphy Pdf

Written in 1989 when the modern tourist industry had reached a crucial stage in its development, when increased mobility and affluence had led to more extensive and extravagant travel, and competition within the industry had intensified, this book is comprehensive examination of tourism development. The author provides a new perspective for its evaluation, and a suggested strategy for its continued development and evolution. He examines tourism from the viewpoint of destination areas and their aspirations, and recommends an ecological, community approach to developing and planning – one which encourages local initiative, local benefits, and a tourism product in harmony with the local environment and its people.

Author : Janet Cochrane
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780080453569

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Asian Tourism by Janet Cochrane Pdf

Tourism in Asia is growing faster than anywhere else in the world. Despite the significance of the tourism industry in this area it is under researched. This book addresses this imbalance by providing an edited collection of chapters which explore the domestic and intraregional tourism in Asia.

Author : Walter Isard,Iwan J. Azis,Matthew P. Drennan,Ronald E. Miller,Sidney Saltzman,Erik Thorbecke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351917902

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Methods of Interregional and Regional Analysis by Walter Isard,Iwan J. Azis,Matthew P. Drennan,Ronald E. Miller,Sidney Saltzman,Erik Thorbecke Pdf

This landmark textbook introduces students to the principles of regional science and focuses on the key methods used in regional analysis, including regional and interregional input-output analysis, econometrics (regional and spatial), programming and industrial and urban complex analysis, gravity and spatial interaction models, SAM and social accounting (welfare) analysis and applied general interregional equilibrium models. The coherent development of the materials contained in the set of chapters provides students with a comprehensive background and understanding of how to investigate key regional problems. For the research scholar, this publication constitutes an up-to-date source book of the basic elements of each major regional science technique. More significant, it points to new directions for future research and ways interregional and regional analytic approaches can be fused to realise much more probing attacks on regional and spatial problems - a contribution far beyond what is available in the literature.

Author : Toshiyuki Kono
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : 9050957587

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Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property by Toshiyuki Kono Pdf

The intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of the world's communities is an inheritance that has been passed down through many generations. Its survival, however, is increasingly threatened by the realities of post-modern society, such as rapid urbanization, large-scale migration, severe environmental change, and globalization. In 2003, the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage recognized the importance of ICH, both as a mainspring of cultural diversity and a source of sustainable development. Early efforts to implement the Convention are bringing to light issues that are crucial to the survival of ICH. Many of these involve its interaction with intellectual property law. To clarify the relationship between these two fields, this present volume gathers the views of scholars and practitioners with diverse expertise and national backgrounds. They examine four main issues: the construction and operation of ICH inventories; the conceptualization of the "community" as a holder of ICH; how to obtain the community's prior informed consent; and the pros and cons of various regulatory regimes. With the book's variety of contributions, the common thread is the belief that regulatory regimes must be designed so that ICH will not only be safeguarded in archives and museums, but also in its living form.