The political in the poetic : an alternative reading of the Jendela Art Group's nascent years (1997-2003) by Nor Jumaiyah Mohamed Khamsin

“…I combine original research drawn from my fieldwork and artist interviews to examine and interpret a selection of Jendela’s artworks to show the political resonances emerging from the interactions between their poetical art and the political conditions of the time, and show how Jendela’s poetical art works with emotion, intuition, and imagination to articulate political concerns and experiences. …”
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Manifestation of Mariamman: images of a fiery Hindu goddess in Singapore by V Vimal Kumar

“…Considering the frameworks utilised in existing scholarship on the worship of village and folk deities, I have adopted fieldwork as a key method in my study of the images of Mariamman in Singapore. …”
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A sketch grammar of Seletar by Tan, Zhi Xuan

“…The analysis presented here is primarily based on narrative texts and wordlists from three Orang Seletar that were collected through my own fieldwork in 2019 and recordings shared with me by Nature Classroom, a Malaysian eco-tourism and education enterprise. …”
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