INDIGENOUSNESS IS AN IDENTITY CONSTRUCTED, SHAPED AND LIVED in the politicized context of contemporary colonialism. The communities, clans, nations and tribes we call Indigenous peoples are just that: Indigenous to the lands they inhabit, in contrast to and in contention with the colonial societies and states that have spread out from Europe and other centres of empire. It is this oppositional,...

The historical documents are valuable cultural heritages and sources for the study of history, social aspect and life at that time. The digitalization of historical documents aims to provide instant access to the archives for the researchers and the public, who had been endowed with limited chance due to maintenance reasons. However, most of these documents are not only written by hand in ancie...

Minority groups with diverse racial and ethnic heritages and persons living in poverty are much more likely to die of asthma and to require emergency care for exacerbations of asthma than white persons not living in poverty. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute convened a multidisciplinary group of expert scientists and clinicians to review current research aimed at understanding risk ...

The analysis of historical materials is an essential component cultural heritage conservation. Protein was one the most important and pervasive organic substances in ancient human societies. Through qualitative quantitative examination protein-based materials, it possible to clarify their source functions heritages, investigate manufacturing technology heritage, identify deterioration mechanism...

As a mixed yet bounded racial category, Eurasian identity in Singapore presents key case exploring mixed-race racisms and hierarchies based around class, race migration. Racial categorizations postcolonial draw heavily on colonial hierarchies, the shifting boundaries Eurasianness illustrate performative nature of identities, politics being recognized/misrecognized as mixed, not-mixed, or “other...

The urbanization process is speeding up in the Internet age, and many architectural heritages will be harmed as a result. This paper examines coupling relationship between heritage protection tourism development using concepts of development, well theory. A preliminary analysis mechanism conducted. Under unsupervised conditions, classification results quantitative index are obtained cluster met...

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has identified craft as an intangible cultural heritage in the Convention for Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage. The nature this is that it must be practiced by living craftspeople to endure, when performed very few, can seen endangered. This research, funded Carl-Göran Adelswärds Foundation, a documentation such craft:...

Historic masonry heritages, such as cathedrals, colonnades, and arch bridges, were constructed with individual components (e.g., stones, bricks, other materials) bound together with, e.g., mortar, they are very vulnerable to foundation settlement, especially differential settlement which occurs frequently in engineering practice. These structures discontinuous, therefore, their behavior under i...