heritage

Digitalisation

Mali’s Heritage: Beyond Timbuktu

Mali is in the news because of the deployment of Dutch military personnel. Media coverage conjures up images of the 2012 destruction of Timbuktu’s World Heritage mausoleums and mosques. Might heritage also have a role in bringing peace and national unity?

Henrike Florusbosch • 04-06-2014

Digitalisation

Roots 'en route': redesigning cultural heritages after migration

Europe is said to be endowed with creativity because of its migrant youth, mixing heritages. But cultural diversity can only be a source of innovation if lost roots are dug up. Can new technology and museums provide help?

Janine Prins • 28-04-2014

Diversity

Nelson Mandela and the politics of mourning

Nelson Mandela has died at the respectable age of 95. But his political life is far from over: he will become a powerful ancestor.

Erik Bähre • 09-12-2013

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

Digitalisation

Anthropology Rocks – On the Fair Use of YouTube (and Jimi Hendrix)

YouTube’s copyright policy refers to “fair use” of the material available at their website. But are we, academics, allowed to use material retrieved from YouTube for the documentation and teaching of Africa’s intangible heritage?

Jan Jansen • 19-11-2013

Diversity · Digitalisation

The urge to forget: collective amnesia as a byproduct of the Westgate Mall attacks

On Saturday 21 September the Westgate Mall in Nairobi was taken over by militants. They killed and injured a shocking number of visitors and occupied the building for days. Kenya fought back by emphasizing the unity and solidarity among its citizens.

Marlous van den Akker • 02-10-2013

Diversity · Digitalisation

Is the UNESCO Office in Paris falling to pieces? Musings on Picasso

In 1958 Pablo Picasso painted a mural for the UNESCO office, but after its installation he refused to sign it. Is this unfinished, soulless work of art perhaps emblematic for the state the organization is in?

Marlous van den Akker • 10-06-2013

Digitalisation

Mummies and coffins in Leiden

Somehow mummies and coffins have always fascinated people. Why? From the moment archaeologists excavated many of them, mummies and coffins started lives that were not originally intended.

Pieter ter Keurs • 03-06-2013

Digitalisation

Moving heritage: a political issue

We are inclined to 'sacralize' heritage, as if the importance of certain objects has always been seen and recognized and has always been beyond discussion. But meanings attributed to certain objects have always been subject to change.

Pieter ter Keurs • 22-04-2013

Blogs

Mali’s Heritage: Beyond Timbuktu

Roots 'en route': redesigning cultural heritages after migration

Nelson Mandela and the politics of mourning

Carrying a talisman: a valid fieldwork method

Anthropology Rocks – On the Fair Use of YouTube (and Jimi Hendrix)

The urge to forget: collective amnesia as a byproduct of the Westgate Mall attacks

Is the UNESCO Office in Paris falling to pieces? Musings on Picasso

Mummies and coffins in Leiden

Moving heritage: a political issue