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In 1981, Anthropologist Joan Larcom traveled with Photographer Ann Skinner-Jones to Vanuatu to create a photographic essay of the people and culture during the first anniversary of the country's independence from France and the United Kingdom. The collection focuses on the people's experiences of independence and new nationhood, mostly on the island of Malakula, where local people have refereed the interface between politics, custom and religion by re-categorizing tradition in creative ways.

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The Chinese News, the inaugural content for the Sally T. WongAvery collection, features a digital archive of the newspaper created from the print archive donated by Mr. Stanley Ting in partnership with UC San Diego alumna, lawyer, educator, and philanthropist Ms. Sally T. WongAvery. The Chinese News, founded by Mr. Ting in 1983, distributed news and advertising to the Chinese-American population in San Diego until 1998. The weekly newspaper contains local and international news articles written in Chinese in addition to advertising in English and Chinese.

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The Cinewest archive collection contains materials documenting several Cinewest production initiatives including "Border Brujo", "California Murals off the Wall", "Mexico History and Image", and others. The "Border Brujo" archives include documentation of live performances by Guillermo Gómez-Peña. The "Mexico History and Image" collection includes Mexican and Chicano murals and art shot in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The "California Murals off the Wall/Art in Progress" archives include documentation of artists David Avalos, Victor Ochoa, Gronk, Barbara Carrasco, Michael Schnorr and others at work on a portable mural show at the Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego. And ...

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CONNECT is a premier innovation company accelerator in San Diego that creates and scales great companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. By creating an environment in which entrepreneurs and C-suite executives have access to the people, capital, and technology resources they need for success, CONNECT has assisted in the formation and development of more than 3,000 companies since 1985. Widely regarded as one of the world’s most successful organizations linking entrepreneurs and C-suite executives with the resources they need for the commercialization of innovative products and services; our program has been modeled in more than 50 regions around ...

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This collection documents anthropological fieldwork by American anthropologist, Edwin Hutchins, and presently includes photographs created by Hutchins and his wife, Dona. The main fieldwork took place between July 1975 and September 1976, in the Trobriand Islands of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, primarily on the island of Kiriwina (also known as Boyowa). During this time the Hutchins were based in the village of Tukwaukwa. Other areas of Papua New Guinea visited by both Edwin and Dona Hutchins, and depicted in the photographs, include Kairiru in East Sepik Province, Port Moresby and its surroundings, and Western Highlands Province. Also included ...

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"Gatherings: Event, Agency, and Program" (Gatherings) is a work of new media art that was written, produced, and performed by Jordan Crandall, a professor and new media artist in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego. Gatherings is a mixed-media performative lecture that studies the nature of events and new forms of awareness, cognition, and material agency that emerge in the wake of technological change. It shows how technologies of tracking and surveillance transform people and objects into actors, influence them to come together as matters worthy of attention. It enables us to see how actors gather into composites, ...

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The Hansen Collection is a group of travel films dating from 1936 through 1980. The collection comprises both the private histories of home movies and the public record of travel films and is an important source of information for the researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

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Through a collaboration between California Department of Fish & Wildlife, NOAA Fisheries Service and Scripps Institution of Oceanography a cooperative was formed in 1949 to study and document the Pacific Coast Region. This group was named The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) and was initially charged with studying the collapse of the sardine population in coastal California and has evolved over the years to study many aspects of marine life and climate science. Four times per year research cruises disembark from the California Coast to stop at prescribed locations to monitor the ecological impacts of fish populations and the ...

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The History of the UC San Diego Visual Arts Department collection documents the history of the Department. The collection includes images documenting its development from 1969-1993. The collection also includes various videos of exhibitions, performances, and lectures associated with the University Art Gallery from the 1970s to the early 2000s. This content is foundational and is the base for a growing collection of content.

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The video recordings represent events organized by the Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW). Established in 2008 as a collaborative project of the UC San Diego Jewish Studies Program and the Library, the HLHW aims to preserve the memory of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Starting in January 2010, the HLHW has been hosting meetings and presentations that connect local survivors, their families, researchers, UCSD students, and San Diego communities. The collection includes the recordings of these events since 2012. Its content covers multiple topics of the history of the Jewish and Romani Holocaust, antisemitism, and Jewish migration mostly ...

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