The Role of Government in Documentation and Promotion of Performing Arts in Thailand

Abstract

The main purpose of documentation of an event, activity, creation, thinking, imagination and inspiration, in the broader sense is to record for expression, information, conservation and promotion of whatever that has been documented. In this sense documentation activities were initiated even in pre-historic times. Rock arts are good examples of evidence of documentation activities. Documentation activities and methods have been carried over from generation to generation, and through time have developed to be more and more effective media for conservation, promotion and transfer of knowledge.