The Williams-Hunt collection aerial photographs and cultural landscapes in Malaysia and Southeast Asia
Cultural and academic links between SOAS and the Institute of the Malay World and Civilization (ATMA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) include academic and cultural exchange. The Williams-Hunt Collection (SOAS) of aerial photographs adds an archival dimension stemming from the life and work...
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2009
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1195/1/SARI27%5B2%5D2009_%5B12%5D.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1195/ http://www.ukm.my/sari/index.html |
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| Summary: | Cultural and academic links between SOAS and the Institute of the Malay World
and Civilization (ATMA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) include
academic and cultural exchange. The Williams-Hunt Collection (SOAS) of aerial
photographs adds an archival dimension stemming from the life and work of
Peter Williams-Hunt (1919-1953). Williams-Hunt is best known for his role as
Advisor to the Aborigines in Malaysia shortly after World War II. During this
period, he wrote several seminal articles on the Orang Asli. He was also a
trained aerial photographic interpreter and collected more than 5000 aerial
photographs of Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and
miscellaneous areas of Vietnam during his postings to Southeast Asia during
the war. The author had new copies made of the old photographs and compiled
them into a database as part of her doctoral work in the 1980s. At present,
thanks to collaboration with Surat Lertlum in Thailand, many parts of the aerial
archive are now available online. The article summarizes aspects of the Williams-
Hunt Collection and discusses the unique contribution made by Williams-Hunt
to archaeology, anthropology and museum collections. His work on ancient
settlements pioneered the analysis of the archaeological landscape and his
anthropological study was the first to document the changing pattern of the
landscape of the many different groups cultivating the forested regions of
peninsular Malaysia |
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