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Locating the Soul of Healing Performance in Malaysia (Penerbit USM)
Locating the Soul of Healing Performance in Malaysia will bring to the fore fundamental principles of healing performance practices in Malaysia which were once the soul of the community’s spiritual health beliefs. Healing performances in Malaysia have been performed, celebrated and reconstructed for many generations even before the advent of Hinduism and Buddhism in Malaysia, approximately since the 4th−5th century ad. These practices played an important role within the sociocultural context of ancient communities, as their traditional beliefs and world view accepted that the supernatural and the nether world coexisted with human beings in a parallel universe. This underlying acknowledge...
Community Engagement through the Arts
The engagement of communities, and the contribution made to communities, have become important features of arts-related projects across the globe. Community Engagement through the Arts is a collection of studies from academicians, independent scholars, arts advocates, artists, and directors of performing arts companies from South East Asia. The book addresses a wide range of topics of interest including arts education in schools, empowering communities through arts, cultural tourism, sustainability of community projects, and dance as therapy. Asian studies of arts-based community projects are unusual, so this collection provides an important reference source for practitioners, teachers and students of performing arts and communal works, worldwide.
RINTIS: A Rethoric of Practice and Theory in Art and Design
Innovation and creativity are not the acts that can be achieved in a single quick action. They are carried out through a methodical procedure that is founded on facts, theories, and practised skills, and they call for a thorough comprehension of the problem at hand. This book explores how creative practises and design may influence society for the better, from examining the educational benefits of performance design to using art to solve difficult societal concerns. The contributors offer unique perspectives on the human condition, highlighting the necessity of delving into difficult topics and utilizing the arts to promote book inclusivity and knowledge-sharing. This includes a variety of w...
Convergence of Research in Art and Design: A Source Book
A fundamental reading for new postgraduate students enrolled in any art and design field - this book provides a basic guide in tackling the fundamental aspects of research for postgraduates, especially for those coming from the art and design background. Included in this book are selections of writings that address some pertinent aspects of research fundamentals with exemplification of several actual case studies by academicians and researchers. Divided into two main sections - the first section highlights some core aspects of research that include topics that deal with thesis writing and literature review, critical thinking, reading, and writing, human ethics application, and polishing presentation skills. The second section of the book consists of chapters discussing real issues and case studies faced by academicians and researchers in the field. These chapters share the foresight of more creative and explorative possibilities, as well as thoughts of research initiatives, wether multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary study in the realm of art and design.
Women Practicing Resilience, Self-care and Wellbeing in Academia
Through a lens of self-care and wellbeing, this book shares stories of struggle and success from a diverse range of women in academia. Each story highlights how these women mitigated and overcame various barriers as part of their academic trajectory and provides practical strategies for maintaining self-care and wellbeing. Taken from lived experience, the autoethnographic narrative approach provides a deeper, personal understanding of the obstacles faced by women throughout an academic career and guidance on how these might be navigated in a way that avoids self-sacrificing. This collection goes further to illustrate the ways that higher education institutions can be more accommodating of the needs of women.
Retracing Tradition for a Sustainable Future: The Malaysian Experience (Penerbit USM)
This volume presents a selection of articles aimed at introducing the field of local knowledge to a local and international audience. Based upon the theme “Retracing Tradition for a Sustainable Future,” the articles detail local practices that reflect local wisdom in various domains of knowledge such as literature, architecture, water management, tourism, dance and drama. This collection of articles embodies an important, tangible initiative by Universiti Sains Malaysia Local Knowledge Secretariat to identify and retrace indigenous local knowledge, besides documenting and conserving local wisdom for future generations. It presents an important resource for researchers and students interested in exploring the under-researched area of local knowledge and indigenous science in the Malaysian context.
Sharing Identities
This anthology celebrates dancing diversities in Malaysia, a multicultural nation with old and not-so-old dance traditions in a synchronicity of history, creativity, inventions and representation of its people, culture and traditions. These articles and interviews document the legacy of dances from the Malay Sultanates to a contemporary remix of old and new dances aspired by a mélange of influences from the old world of India, China, European and indigenous dance traditions. This gives forth dance cultures that vibrate with multicultural dance experiences. Narratives of eclecticism, syncretic and innovative dance forms and styles reflect the processes of inventing and sharing of dance identities from the era of the colonial Malay states to post-independence Malaysia.
Discourses, Agency and Identity in Malaysia
This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining discourses of identity formation and the agency of critical social practices in Malaysia. Taking an inclusive cultural studies perspective, it questions the ideological narrative of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ that dominates explanations of conflicts and cleavages in the Malaysian context. The contributions are organised in three broad themes. ‘Identities in Contestation: Borders, Complexities and Hybridities’ takes a range of empirical studies—literary translation, religion, gender, ethnicity, indigeneity and sexual orientation—to break down preconceived notions of fixed identities. This then ope...
Kearifan Tempatan: Pengalaman Nusantara: Jilid 2 - Meneliti Kosmologi dan Adat Istiadat (Penerbit USM)
Buku ini menzahirkan upaya untuk menjadikan epistemologi tempatan sebagai salah satu transformasi sosial yang secara tidak langsung mengetengahkan pengalaman dan gambaran tentang bidang kearifan tempatan masyarakat Nusantara ini telah berkembang dari semasa ke semasa dan kemudiannya telah membudaya dalam kalangan masyarakat. Namun, hal ini kurang disedari oleh masyarakat tempatan sendiri. Oleh itu, Kumpulan Kearifan Tempatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia mengambil inisiatif untuk menampilkan semula kebijaksanaan tempatan yang tidak kita sedari kewujudannya ini. Tiga objektif utama dikemukakan, iaitu mengenal pasti dan menyusuri semula kearifan tempatan, memperkenalkan kearifan tempatan semasa s...
