Fridus Steijlen schrijft maandelijks een column voor de nieuwsbrief van Museum Maluku. 'Een tante op de boot naar Haria'. Deze maand staat de tentoonstelling Mahina in VoxPop in Amsterdam. Een ode aan Molukse vrouwen...
Are citizenship, democracy, and human rights really purely Western conceptions, as many have concluded since Aristotle? Have such ideas about state-citizen interaction...
As an ethnographer working with island communities in Eastern Indonesia, Elena Burgos Martinez grapples with the ‘privilege ceiling’...
What is seen as Dutch national heritage is very much shaped by academically trained heritage professionals and the audiences they speak to and reach. As a curator at the Rijksmuseum, I see ...
The chapter 'A virtual dark journey through the debris: Playing inside the Haiti earthquake (2010)', written by KITLV researcher Kasia Mika, has been published in the...
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...