Sustainability

Sustainability

The revival of hunter-gatherer research

In September, 50 years after the famous Man the Hunter symposium (1965), the International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research celebrated its foundation at the vibrant, interdisciplinary CHAGS conference, launching the Hunter Gatherer Research Journal.

Gerard Persoon + 1 other • 22-10-2015

Sustainability

Keep It Clean Day! Your contribution to a cleaner ocean

It is Keep It Clean Day! The area that really could do with a good cleanup is our ocean and beaches. Large research studies now focus on the ‘plastic soup’, and local initiatives are equally encouraging. In Dutch we even have a new word: Grondstofjutten.

Floor Hendriks • 18-09-2015

Sustainability

Cold showers and amazing little buckets

A story on how students from Leiden went to do research on problems with water in the Philippines and then very physically experienced their research topic. Or: How you can have both too little and too much water at the same time.

Nina Simic • 04-03-2015

Sustainability

Community-conserved areas: Do freshwater fish sanctuaries work?

What determines the failure or success of community-conserved projects that try to combine biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction? Lien Vermeersch wrote her MA thesis on fish sanctuaries in the Philippines and won the Speckmann Prize 2015.

Lien Vermeersch • 18-02-2015

Sustainability · Diversity · Digitalisation

Practice makes perfect: fieldwork methods at the Field School NL

January is Fieldwork Month for many of our staff and students. This year, the first edition of the Field School NL provided MA students with intensive training in fieldwork methods, from food diaries to focus groups.

Henrike Florusbosch • 06-02-2015

Sustainability

Spirits up for the tigers: Unsung heroes from a conservation project

Underlying forces at work behind successful wildlife conservation are seldom shared. To show their importance, here are the stories of a politician, a shaman, and a landowner at the Panna Tiger Reserve in India.

Shekhar Kolipaka • 04-02-2015

Sustainability · Digitalisation

World Heritage in the Netherlands (Part 1)

For exploration you don’t always have to go to the far and exotic: An anthropologist who studies world heritage discourse and practice in West Africa decides to be adventurous and explore a World Heritage site in her own backyard.

Henrike Florusbosch • 01-09-2014

Sustainability · Diversity

Why anthropology matters: a critique on De Social Club’s take on hunting safaris

Anthropologists study difference: We go to other places to examine how, and why, people do things differently. However, the insights of these studies do not only teach us about other places and peoples - they can also shine a light upon our own society

Marlous van den Akker • 21-02-2014

Sustainability

Carrying a talisman: a valid fieldwork method

Some fieldwork encounters radically change our perspective. However, it often seems that such encounters depend more on a dose of good luck than on careful planning. My research as well took a radically different turn after one such lucky rendezvous.

Marlous van den Akker • 02-12-2013

Blogs

The revival of hunter-gatherer research

Keep It Clean Day! Your contribution to a cleaner ocean

Cold showers and amazing little buckets

Community-conserved areas: Do freshwater fish sanctuaries work?

Practice makes perfect: fieldwork methods at the Field School NL

Spirits up for the tigers: Unsung heroes from a conservation project

World Heritage in the Netherlands (Part 1)

Why anthropology matters: a critique on De Social Club’s take on hunting safaris

Carrying a talisman: a valid fieldwork method