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Future heritage? The 'Historic Urban Landscape' approach in Zanzibar and Amsterdam

What can Zanzibar Town in Tanzania learn about managing world heritage from Amsterdam, and vice versa? At least one thing: that intangible heritage is not a matter of the past, and that its purpose - its future – may ‘conserve’ it most effectively.

Peter Pels • 11-02-2016

Diversity

The anthropologist and the key

This year’s ‘Veldwerk NL’ students revealed the importance of the key in anthropological research. It not only symbolises access, it creates possibilities to break down prejudices and pave the way to constructive human interaction.

Nienke van der Heide • 05-02-2016

Diversity

Humour: a threat to society?

The more you think about humour, the more complex it becomes. Humour can be both insulting and complimentary, both escalating and de-escalating, both relaxed and tense. It exploits stereotypes and sweeps them aside. Is humour a potential threat to society?

Kim Molenaar • 29-01-2016

Digitalisation

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

Diversity

Moralising misfortune: The morality of life insurance

Erik Bähre has received an ERC Consolidator Grant for research on the morality of life insurance. What issues are raised when insurance companies define responsibility and solidarity? Has insurance changed since the crisis of 2007?

Erik Bähre • 05-01-2016

Digitalisation

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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Future heritage? The 'Historic Urban Landscape' approach in Zanzibar and Amsterdam

The anthropologist and the key

Humour: a threat to society?

1.000.000 views! Blogging, sharing, and countering clichés

Moralising misfortune: The morality of life insurance

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