Material culture: a digital documentation of the art and culture of the Saribas Malay, Sarawak
This paper investigates the use and application of material culture study methods to document and organise the cultural collections of the Saribas Malay community in Betong Division, Sarawak. The main objective of the study is to identify the Saribas Malays’ awareness on the importance to docume...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2020
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16463/1/39506-132459-1-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16463/ https://ejournal.ukm.my/akademika/issue/view/1255 |
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Summary: | This paper investigates the use and application of material culture study methods to document and organise the cultural
collections of the Saribas Malay community in Betong Division, Sarawak. The main objective of the study is to identify
the Saribas Malays’ awareness on the importance to document material culture. A documentation template based on
material culture theory was designed to preserve and sustain cultural objects, starting with a practical application can
be easily used and effectively implemented by the local community. This qualitative research used in-depth interviews to
gather data on respondents’ awareness on the importance of documenting material culture and their perception on using
the template. The respondents were selected among Saribas Malays who make, use, keep and collect cultural objects.
For the purpose of this study, Fleming’s (1974) and Prown’s (1982) models were adapted to construct a template to
document information of the artefacts and as analytical tools. The findings from the interview sessions with the Saribas
community showed that they were positive towards the effort to preserve material culture through documentation. The
simple template proposed was sufficient to record basic information of the artefacts. Although this will take a while to
complete, but in the end, this activity will be able to document the artefacts and be used as reference for academics,
museum cataloguing and antique collection purposes. |
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