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Studying World Heritage in the Netherlands - Part 2

What can one learn from three days of fieldwork on Texel? As it turns out, quite a bit. Visiting the exhibition “Garde Robe” at Kaap Skil museum, I came across a successful example of a museum sharing its authority with members of the community.

Henrike Florusbosch • 31-05-2016

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The Anti-Politics of World Heritage

In the late 1990s, Mt. Kenya obtained World Heritage status for its unique natural features. Natural-scientific rhetoric underpinned the designation - and covered up the politics at play.

Marlous van den Akker • 23-05-2016

Digitalisation

Street photography and ethnographic ethics

With the accessibility of new technology and digital cameras, most of us anthropologists these days routinely make images in the field. But how do we handle the issues of trust, privacy and other ethics of ethnographic image-making?

Mark Westmoreland • 10-05-2016

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Culture: Public or Private?

Looking at the present situation in many countries we have the impression that culture, museums and heritage have always been state financed affairs. Yet, historical reality might offer us a different picture.

Pieter ter Keurs • 01-04-2016

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1.000.000 views! Blogging, sharing, and countering clichés

A million views in two years. The Leiden Anthropology Blog is a resounding success! Apart from these numbers, what goals have we achieved and what future do we see for blogging anthropologists?

Erik Bähre + 1 other • 25-01-2016

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Steef Meyknecht (1951- 2015) - A salute by his colleagues

This in memoriam for Steef Meyknecht, who passed away on 21 November, was composed by Metje Postma from the memoires and appreciative notes by colleagues in Visual Ethnography in the Netherlands, Dirk Nijland, Eddy Appels, Janine Prins, and Erik de Maaker.

Metje Postma • 21-12-2015

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Data management and ethics: A discussion between two Leiden anthropologists

Anthropologists have important insights to add to the public debate about data management. Come join the discussion on our institute’s position paper on October 26th. Here we share some thoughts on ethics, ethnography, and data.

Zane Kripe + 1 other • 14-10-2015

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Practising Visual Methods

Researchers from a variety of disciplines and countries flock to Leiden in August. Exploring the ‘ordinary’, showing emotion, and challenging existing images: they tell what draws them to spend their summer on audiovisual methods.

Janine Prins • 09-10-2015

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Hysterical Heritage? Reflections on the Dutch King’s Golden Carriage

The anthropology of material culture teaches us what things can do to people. But do we understand the cultural effects of a hysterical object like the Dutch monarchy’s Golden Carriage?

Peter Pels • 28-09-2015

Blogs

Studying World Heritage in the Netherlands - Part 2

The Anti-Politics of World Heritage

Street photography and ethnographic ethics

Culture: Public or Private?

1.000.000 views! Blogging, sharing, and countering clichés

Steef Meyknecht (1951- 2015) - A salute by his colleagues

Data management and ethics: A discussion between two Leiden anthropologists

Practising Visual Methods

Hysterical Heritage? Reflections on the Dutch King’s Golden Carriage