The Dutch wasted a great deal of effort on the area between the Orinoco and Amazon Deltas in the 17th century. While various trading posts and forts did manage to survive, at least 15 attempts at ...
Last April, I visited the mountain village of Bittuang in Tana Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia for the fourth time. This is one of the eight locations in which we record daily life for our audiovisual project Recording the Future. On each of our...
By Henk Schulte Nordholt on the history of Southeast Asia: Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte. Band 12: Südostasien (German Edition). Von Bali bis Singapur, von Myanmar bis Vietnam ...
Het jaar 2017 was voor het KITLV in vele opzichten een goed en dynamisch jaar. Aan de vooravond van de reorganisatie, medio 2014, leefden er binnen en buiten het instituut ernstige zorgen. Zou het ...
The NWIG is a scholarly fully open access journal on the Caribbean, featuring English-language articles in the fields of anthropology, art, archaeology, economics, geography, geology...
In Podcast #DeDag (NPO Radio 1) op 16 mei jl. werd de vraag gesteld waarom het zo slecht is gesteld met het vertrouwen in de overheid. KITLV onderzoeker Wouter...
Report of the second workshop at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, by Henk Schulte Nordholt. On 1 and 2 May 2018, researchers of the ‘Regional Studies’ and ‘Violence, Bersiap, Berdaulat’ subprojects held a workshop in Yogyakarta...
By Henk Schulte Nordholt. By exclusively focusing on the agency of the Dutch, colonial historiography ignored the pivotal role of indigenous middle classes in sustaining the colonial regime. ...
As a researcher focusing on people often labelled as ‘child brides’, Hoko Horii explores the crippling effects of prejudice, along with its intimate connection to power structures in ...
Last March, I had the opportunity to spend two days in Cairo and, with the help of a local bookseller, I was able to buy some 25 Malay books in Arabic script that had been produced in Cairo....