December 2024

03 Dec Philippus Corts Fund | Winners 2024

Posted at 18:35h in News Items, Spotlight on Southeast Asia 0 Comments

In 2024 the PCF grant was awarded to the following winners: Feba Sukmana & Lara Nuberg for their project on a new publication of Kartini's letters; Maarten Manse for his project to finalize and resubmit a book manuscript on the topic of...

03 Dec NWIG Article | Mythologizing the Lwa Demanbre: A thought experiment in the nineteenth-century history of Vodou

Posted at 00:49h in Publication, Spotlight on the Caribbean 0 Comments

The importance of demanbre, the sacred plot of family land in Haiti, is undisputed, but the development of demanbre from land to lwa (an elevated Vodou spirit) ...