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21.01.2022 https://theconversation.com/people-on-vanuatus-malekula-isl

16.01.2022 If you are interested in crowdsourcing transcriptions, there's a free webinar on February 17, 2021 at 12:00PM AEDT, 9:00AM AWST. https://content.fromthepage.com/international-webinars/

14.01.2022 The True Echoes project has launched a new research website for this collaboration between the British Library, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, PARADISEC, Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta, Solomon Islands National Museum, Tjibaou Centre and AIATSIS blogs.bl.uk//true-echoes-launches-new-research-website.html

14.01.2022 We've now launched our new research website, which provides access to in-depth research on the British Library’s extraordinary collection of Oceanic wax cylinde...rs: https://www.true-echoes.com/ The website currently focuses on the Malinowski Cylinder Collection [C46], five wax cylinders recorded in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, between 1915 and 1918 by renowned anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. https://blogs.bl.uk//true-echoes-launches-new-research-web

05.01.2022 More than 1,200 hours of sound recordings are now available by request and registration through the UC San Diego Digital Collections website. These 804 quarter-inch reels and audio cassette field recordings from eight collections in the Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Anthropology at the UC San Diego Library Special Collections & Archives were digitized thanks to a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the work of the Library’s... project team, as well as community partners. https://lib.ucsd.edu/oceania For the past few years, the UC San Diego Library has been building a virtual reading room (VRR) environment to facilitate access to content that may be granted upon registration and agreement to the terms of use. To listen to the recordings, register in the request system and then you will receive an email with a link to access the recording for 30 days. Roger M. Keesing Collection - interviews with men and women on Kwaio culture and history, as well as speeches, meetings, and group discussions recorded in the context of Keesing’s field research from 19621992. Of particular interest are interviews with some of the last living Kwaio participants and witnesses relating to the 1927 assassination of District Officer William Bell. Harold Scheffler Collection - sound recordings from Scheffler’s field research among Varisi language speakers on Choiseul Island (1958-1961) and later work from 1967 to 1968 among Baniata language speakers on Rendova and other islands near New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. The recordings include recitations of texts, pan flute music and songs. Anthony Forge Films & Recordings - Films and sound recordings taken by Forge during his research with the Abelam and neighboring peoples of the Sepik River region in Papua New Guinea. Roy Rappaport Collection interviews, linguistic exercises, chanting, drumming, and singing captured during his fieldwork with the Tsembaga Maring of the Simbai Valley in Papua New Guinea during two field trips (1962-1963 and 1981-1982). Edwin Cook and Susan Pflanz Cook Collection - interviews, song learning, church functions, festivals, meetings, and stories captured during field research in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea in 1961-1963 and 1971-1972. Jane Goodale Recordings - social life, customs, and song performances of the Kaulong recorded by Goodale in Umbi and Angelek during her three visits to New Britain Island in 1962-1964, 1967-1968, and 1974. Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart Recordings - Namasu sing-sing, stories of tambaran cults, and woman and man stories recorded in 1967 in Pangia, Papua New Guinea. Stephen Leavitt Recordings - interviews and events related to the ethnography of the Bumbita Arapesh people of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea in 1984-1986.

02.01.2022 Read about our podcast series in this article in the University Museums and Collections Journal by our members Jodie Kell and Stephen Gagau. Download: http://umac.icom.museum/wp-cont/uploads//01/UMACj-12_1.pdf

02.01.2022 Donate to PARADISEC's operations! You can sponsor a tape today! PARADISEC has no ongoing funding and relies on grants and donations to keep operating. Feel good about preserving cultural heritage! And it's tax deductible (in Australia).