“she did her own dissertation fieldwork in the same part of South-Central Java as Dr. Dunham”
Gee, that’s pretty convenient, isn’t it?
And Maya found her research on disc in a drawer after she died...
From June 1977 through September 1978, Dunham carried out research on village industries in the Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY)—the Yogyakarta Special Region within Central Java in Indonesia under a student grant from the East-West Center.[41] As a weaver herself, Dunham was interested in village industries, and moved to Yogyarkarta City, the center of Javanese handicrafts.[36][42]
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On August 9, 1992 she was awarded Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Hawaii, under the supervision of Prof. Alice Dewey, with a dissertation titled Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia: surviving and thriving against all odds.[45] Anthropologist Michael Dove described the dissertation as “a classic, in-depth, on-the-ground anthropological study of a 1,200-year-old industry”.[46] According to Dove, Dunham’s dissertation challenged popular perceptions regarding economically and politically marginalized groups...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham
Looks like they decided to use Dewey’s left-overs to create a monument for Stanley Ann Dunham, doesn’t it?