Final Project Outline Report Fiscal Year 2014 Special Project - Oral History and Ethnography Project #2: Inventory of Cultural and Historical Sites and Oral History in the Interior of Ngatpang State Volume II: Collection of Oral History
2015. Final Project Outline Report Fiscal Year 2014 Special Project - Oral History and Ethnography Project #2: Inventory of Cultural and Historical Sites and Oral History in the Interior of Ngatpang State Volume II: Collection of Oral History. Palau Historic Preservation Office, Bureau of Cultural and Historical Preservation, Ministry of Cultural Affairs
Summary of Achievements: "The Oral History and Ethnography Section proposed to conduct a project along with Survey and Inventory/Archaeology Section to survey and produce an inventory of cultural and historical sites and oral history in the interior of Ngatpang State. In order to fulfill this task it was planned that the professional Cultural Anthropologist will work with the historical preservation specialist in collecting Ngatpang oral histories specific to new sites surveyed by the Archaeology and Survey team. This project aimed to conduct archival research on oral histories and related materials to Ngatpang State. This exercise helped in identifying research which has been previously completed in Ngatpang. It has better informed the research in a way to identify specific gaps in terms of oral histories and ethnographic information which was not collected and captures in previous work. Moreover it has helped the Oral History and Ethnography Section tailor a more focused questionnaire and refine goals to guide interviews and/or community meetings. This project was significant for it gathers different written versions or elements of oral histories related to Ngatpang. Field work which involved interviewing elders and key people in Ngatpang community took place in March and April 2015 followed by transcription, translation, and write up of the report. Reviews of interview transcription were done in August and September 2015." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Palau Historic Preservation Office, Bureau of Cultural and Historical Preservation, Ministry of Community and Cultural Affairs, administered by the Pacific West Regional Office, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (grant number P15AF00022).
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Date of Issue
- 2015-12
- Publisher
- Palau Historic Preservation Office, Bureau of Cultural and Historical Preservation, Ministry of Cultural Affairs
- Units
- HPF