The nations of the Pacific region are faced with a substantial challenge in preserving and promot... more The nations of the Pacific region are faced with a substantial challenge in preserving and promoting their cultural heritage. Vanuatu, for example, is a nation of approximately 145,000 people who speak 113 different languages, none of which were written until the European incursion after 1840. The Vanuatu Cultural Centre has developed a unique program to address this problem – the fieldworker program. Volunteer extension workers, based in their own villages and districts, work to document and revive local customary knowledge and practice. Operating now for nearly thirty years, the program has resulted in the production of thousands of hours of audio recordings of various kinds, kept in the National Audio Archives. This documentation process both demonstrates and raises many issues about the nature of oral traditions, and in particular, the way in which they constantly transform to meet new circumstances. This paper will describe some aspects of the fieldworker program and will consider the complex issue of change and transformation in oral traditions
The inventory of cultural property is a fundamental contributor to the advancement and exchange o... more The inventory of cultural property is a fundamental contributor to the advancement and exchange of knowledge and to the promotion of cultural identity and intercultural communication. It fulfils this purpose before and independently of another significant function, that of identfying dispersed heritages and permitting countries of origin seriously to organize possible requests for the return of cultural objects. In this spirit, the project described below has been financed by Unesco and the experience gained by our Australian colleagues will no doubt be of considerable interest to others engaged in similar undertakings.
... At other points explanations are lacking. Netti is helped in the house by a young girl, Jane ... more ... At other points explanations are lacking. Netti is helped in the house by a young girl, Jane (Janet David), whose relationship to family members is never made explicit. ... It is also a film worth seeing for itself. Lissant Bolton Australian National University. ...
... 29 The British District Agent acting at this election was Darvall Wilkins. According to Darre... more ... 29 The British District Agent acting at this election was Darvall Wilkins. According to Darrell Tryon (pers. comm., 1997) Wilkins did not speak French. Since Chief Willie is fluent in neither English nor French, his identification of the language of argument may be in error. ...
... Amsterdam . View all references, also Greub 199210. Greub , S. 1992 Art of North west New Gui... more ... Amsterdam . View all references, also Greub 199210. Greub , S. 1992 Art of North west New Guinea: From Geelvink Bay, Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani , Rizzoli International Publications, New York . View all references). 'Art'. ...
The nations of the Pacific region are faced with a substantial challenge in preserving and promot... more The nations of the Pacific region are faced with a substantial challenge in preserving and promoting their cultural heritage. Vanuatu, for example, is a nation of approximately 145,000 people who speak 113 different languages, none of which were written until the European incursion after 1840. The Vanuatu Cultural Centre has developed a unique program to address this problem – the fieldworker program. Volunteer extension workers, based in their own villages and districts, work to document and revive local customary knowledge and practice. Operating now for nearly thirty years, the program has resulted in the production of thousands of hours of audio recordings of various kinds, kept in the National Audio Archives. This documentation process both demonstrates and raises many issues about the nature of oral traditions, and in particular, the way in which they constantly transform to meet new circumstances. This paper will describe some aspects of the fieldworker program and will consider the complex issue of change and transformation in oral traditions
The inventory of cultural property is a fundamental contributor to the advancement and exchange o... more The inventory of cultural property is a fundamental contributor to the advancement and exchange of knowledge and to the promotion of cultural identity and intercultural communication. It fulfils this purpose before and independently of another significant function, that of identfying dispersed heritages and permitting countries of origin seriously to organize possible requests for the return of cultural objects. In this spirit, the project described below has been financed by Unesco and the experience gained by our Australian colleagues will no doubt be of considerable interest to others engaged in similar undertakings.
... At other points explanations are lacking. Netti is helped in the house by a young girl, Jane ... more ... At other points explanations are lacking. Netti is helped in the house by a young girl, Jane (Janet David), whose relationship to family members is never made explicit. ... It is also a film worth seeing for itself. Lissant Bolton Australian National University. ...
... 29 The British District Agent acting at this election was Darvall Wilkins. According to Darre... more ... 29 The British District Agent acting at this election was Darvall Wilkins. According to Darrell Tryon (pers. comm., 1997) Wilkins did not speak French. Since Chief Willie is fluent in neither English nor French, his identification of the language of argument may be in error. ...
... Amsterdam . View all references, also Greub 199210. Greub , S. 1992 Art of North west New Gui... more ... Amsterdam . View all references, also Greub 199210. Greub , S. 1992 Art of North west New Guinea: From Geelvink Bay, Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani , Rizzoli International Publications, New York . View all references). 'Art'. ...
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