Resources for the conservation of Southeast Asian art

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
Susan G. Swartzburg
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Political Unrest ◽  
Effects Of War ◽  
And Training ◽  
Regional Conservation

There is a desperate and urgent need to conserve works of art and documentary materials in Southeast Asia, where the rigours of the climate and the effects of war and political unrest have ravaged the cultural heritage. An initiative launched by Cornell University in Cambodia, with the intention of preserving documentary materials and training Cambodian librarians in conservation techniques, may result in the development of a badly-needed regional centre which would complement the National Archives of the Philippines, and the Regional Conservation Centres established by IFLA on the Pacific rim, in Australia and Japan. Information and expertise are available from UNESCO, ICOMOS, ICCROM, ICOM, the Getty Conservation Institute, IIC, IADA, IPC, IFLA, ICA, and other international and US organisations.

Book Reviews

1963 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-328
Author(s):  
P. Emst ◽  
R.A. Stein ◽  
F. Sierksma ◽  
Jacob Vredenbregt ◽  
Jacob Vredenbregt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Japanese Occupation ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
Oxford University Press ◽  
Original Drawings

- F. Sierksma, R.A. Stein, La civilisation tibétaine. Paris (Dunod) 1962. Collection Sigma, I. With original drawings by Lobsang Tendzin and photographs. 269 p.- P. van Emst, A. Grenfell Price, The western invasion of the Pacific and its continents. A study of moving frontiers and changing landscapes 1513-1958. Oxford University Press. Oxford 1963. 236 pp.- Jacob Vredenbregt, Elmer Lear, The Japanese occupation of the Philippines, Leyte, 1941-1945. Data paper number 42, Southeast Asia Program. Department of Far Eastern Studies. Cornell University, June 1961.- Jacob Vredenbregt, U Hla Pe, U Hla Pe’s narrative of the Japanese occupation of Burma, recorded by U Khin. Data paper number 41, Southeast Asia Program, Department of Far Eastern Studies, Cornell University, April 1961.- C. Nooteboom, Ornulv Vorren, Lapp life and customs, a survey; translated from the Norwegian by Kathleen McFarlane; London, Oxford University Press, 1962. 171 pp. text, 24 plates, 57 drawings, map., Ernst Manker (eds.)

scholarly journals Retrospective seroepidemiological study of chikungunya infection in South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific region

2016 ◽  
Vol 144 (11) ◽  
pp. 2268-2275 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. NGWE TUN ◽  
S. INOUE ◽  
K. Z. THANT ◽  
N. TALEMAITOGA ◽  
A. ARYATI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Indirect Elisa ◽  
Neutralization Test ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Serum Samples ◽  
Chikv Infection ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Focus Reduction

SUMMARYChikungunya virus (CHIKV) and Ross River virus (RRV) of the genusAlphavirus, family Togaviridae are mainly transmitted byAedesmosquitoes and the symptoms they cause in patients are similar to dengue. A chikungunya (CHIK) outbreak re-emerged in several Asian countries during 2005–2006. This study aimed to clarify the prevalence of CHIKV infection in suspected dengue patients in six countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Seven hundred forty-eight serum samples were from dengue-suspected patients in South Asia and Southeast Asia, and 52 were from patients in Fiji. The samples were analysed by CHIKV IgM capture ELISA, CHIKV IgG indirect ELISA and focus reduction neutralization test against CHIKV or RRV. CHIK-confirmed cases in South Asia, particularly Myanmar and Sri Lanka, were 4·6%, and 6·1%, respectively; and in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam, were 27·4%, 26·8% and 25·0%, respectively. It suggests that CHIK was widely spread in these five countries in Asia. In Fiji, no CHIK cases were confirmed; however, RRV-confirmed cases represented 53·6% of suspected dengue cases. It suggests that RRV is being maintained or occasionally entering from neighbouring countries and should be considered when determining a causative agent for dengue-like illness in Fiji.

Southeast Asian Defense Treaty

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-613
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Southwest Pacific ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Collective Defense

On September 8, 1954, representatives of the United States, United Kingdom, France, the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand signed the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, a protocol designating the areas to which the treaty was to apply, and the Pacific Charter, a declaration setting forth the aims of the eight countries in southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific. Negotiations leading up to the actual signature of the treaty had been underway throughout the summer of 1954 and had culminated in an eight-power conference in Manila which opened on September 6.

Replacement names for Cyrtandra humilis Elmer and Cyrtandra umbellata Kraenzl., two endemic Philippine species (Gesneriaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 418 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-118
Author(s):  
JAY EDNEIL C. OLIVAR ◽  
ALEXANDRA MUELLNER-RIEHL
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Family ◽  
Center Of Diversity ◽  
Primary Forests

Cyrtandra Forster & Forster (1776: 5) is the largest genus in the family Gesneriaceae, with over 800 species distributed throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific (Atkins et al. 2013). Members of the genus are important understory elements in primary forests, with varying habits (Burtt 2001). The Philippines is considered a center of diversity for the genus, with approximately 105–150 spp. (Atkins et al. 2013, Johnson et al. 2017).

A 4000 year-old introduction of domestic pigs into the Philippine Archipelago: implications for understanding routes of human migration through Island Southeast Asia and Wallacea

Antiquity ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 83 (321) ◽  
pp. 687-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. Piper ◽  
Hsiao-chun Hung ◽  
Fredeliza Z. Campos ◽  
Peter Bellwood ◽  
Rey Santiago
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Domestic Pig ◽  
Domestic Pigs ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
New Research

New research into the Neolithic of Island Southeast Asia is broadening the old models and making them more diverse, more human – more like history: people and animals can move through the islands in a multitude of ways. The domestic pig is an important tracker of Neolithic people and practice into the Pacific, and the authors address the controversial matter of whether domestic pigs first reached the islands of Southeast Asia from China via Taiwan or from the neighbouring Vietnamese peninsula. The DNA trajectory read from modern pigs favours Vietnam, but the authors have found well stratified domestic pig in the Philippines dated to c. 4000 BP and associated with cultural material of Taiwan. Thus the perils of relying only on DNA – but are these alternative or additional stories?

scholarly journals Reaping the Benefits of Industry 4.0 through Skills Development in High-Growth Industries in Southeast Asia: Insights from Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanti Jagannathan ◽  
Dorothy Geronimo
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
High Growth ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Synthesis Report ◽  
And Training

This synthesis report explores the implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) on the future of the job market in Southeast Asia. It is part of the series of reports that assesses how jobs, tasks, and skills are being transformed in industries with high relevance to 4IR technologies in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam. The series provides recommendations to strengthen policies, skills, and training as well as new approaches, strategies, and actions to enhance the readiness of each country’s workforce for 4IR.

scholarly journals Sisters Behind the Wire: Reappraising Australian Military Nursing and Internment in the Pacific during World War II

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angharad Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Nurses ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Military Nursing ◽  
National Archives Of Australia ◽  
Civilian Women

During the Second World War, approximately 3,500 Australian military nurses served in combat regions throughout the world. The vast majority were enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), but after the Japanese advance and the fall of Hong Kong (December 1941) and Singapore (February 1942), a significant number of these nurses spent three-and-a-half years as POWs in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan and the Philippines. To date, considerable research has been undertaken on POW experiences in Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Japan, albeit primarily focused on the testimonies of men and civilian women. This body of research utilises various methodologies, from Yuki Tanaka and Kei Ushimura's efforts to reconcile Japanese war crimes with the corruption of the Bushido ethic and sexual violence in contemporary Japanese society, to Christina Twomey's work on the imprisonment and repatriation of Dutch, Dutch–Eurasian and Australian civilian women and children. In the past fifteen years, historians have become aware of the need to recognise the multiplicity of these experiences, rather than continuing to focus on individual community, camp or regional case studies. Nurses are by no means absent from the discussion, although the majority of notable works on this subject focus on Hong Kong or the Philippines and adopt a descriptive and somewhat anecdotal approach. At the same time, scant critical attention has been paid to the internment of nurses in Indonesia despite a wealth of material kept in the Australian War Memorial (AWM) and National Archives of Australia (NAA).

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1965 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-388
Author(s):  
H.R. Mesman ◽  
Jane Richardson Hanks ◽  
F.D.K. Bosch ◽  
W.F. Wertheim ◽  
S. Kooyman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
African Studies ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Project Data

- W.F. Wertheim, Het onderwijsbeleid in Nederlands-Indië 1900-1940. Een bronnenpublicatie (bew. door Dr. S.L. van der Wal). Wolters, Groningen 1963. 724 blz.- F.D.K. Bosch, J.E. van Lohuizen-De Leeuw, Indische skulpturen der sammlung Eduard von der Heydt. Beschreibender Katalog, Zürich, 1961.- F.D.K. Bosch, J.E. van Lohuizen-De Leeuw, Schätze aus Thailand. Katalog einer Ausstellung im Wallraf-Richarts-Museum zu Köln, 1963 (Einführung in die Kunst Thailands von J.E. van Lohuizen-De Leeuw, Amsterdam; Zur Thailändischen Malerei von Elizabeth Lyons, New York; Verzeichnis der ausgestellten Werke von M.C. Subhadradis Diskul, Bangkok)., Elizabeth Lyons, M.C. Subhadradis Diskul (eds.)- F.D.K. Bosch, Th. P. Galestin, Hedendaagse kunst van Bali uit het eigendom van H.M. de Koningin, de Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden en de heer Bonnet. Catalogus van de in 1962 in het Centraal Museum te Utrecht gehouden tentoonstelling.- C. Nooteboom, S. Kooyman, Ornamented bark-cloth in Indonesia. Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, No. 16, 1963; VI and 145 pp. 32 plates and 235 drawings.- C. Nooteboom, Norbert Mylius, Indonesische Textilkunst: batik, ikat und plangi. Verlag Notring der Wissensch. Verb. Österreichs, Wien 1964; 93 S., 36 Bilder.- H.R. Mesman, Jane Richardson Hanks, Maternity and its rituals in Bang Chan. Cornell Thailand Project. Data Paper: No. 51, Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. December 1963. 128 Seiten.- J. Gonda, H.L. Shorto, Linguistic comparison in South East Asia and the Pacific. (Collected Papers in Oriental and African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1963; 159 pages.)

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