Author: KITLV

De afdeling Bedrijfsvoering binnen het KITLV is verantwoordelijk voor uiteenlopende taken zoals HR, Communicatie, Financiële Administratie en Office Management. Momenteel is de afdeling op zoek naar ...

There are things in daily life that seem to always continue without notice. For me, one of them is going to the hairdresser, more or less every six weeks. I only changed a hairdresser when he retired or when I moved. Visits...

The New West Indian Guide (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, history...

On March 2, Professor William Frederick passed away. We lost a great scholar and a generous and inspiring senior colleague. Bill focussed much of his research on the Japanese occupation of Indonesia and the Indonesian Revolution. ...

As part of the Island(er)s at the Helm research program, the Transatlantic Academic Platform encourages regional collaboration and international discussion by raising awareness of the role of ...

My most memorable Lunar New Year was a quarter of a century ago in Pontianak, the provincial capital of West Kalimantan. One month prior to this, news had started coming in about deadly clashes between the indigenous Dayak people ...

Op 6 december dit jaar ontviel ons plotseling onze zeer gewaardeerde oud-collega Meindert van der Kaaij. Meindert was van 2017 tot 2021 werkzaam op het KITLV als onderzoeker in het KITLV-NIMH-NIOD...

As Selangor prepares to celebrate its Bugis Malay ruler’s birthday, it is interesting to look at how the sultanate itself was born from a mixture of Bugis and Malay elements. Sunday December 11th is the 78th birthday of the Sultan of Selangor...

The journal NWIG has published a new issue. It includes 2 articles: 'She has not been seen or heard of since: Gender, incarceration, and punishment in The Bahamas, 1860s–1920s', by Anne Ulentin and 'Sustenance and survival: Women, food and sovereignty...

“What’s the point?” you inquire, adjusting your pince-nez sceptically. And to that, we reply: loanwords are monuments of cultural contact. Once detected as such, they reveal human agency and encounters previously concealed by the misty shrouds of time...

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In de podcast Hoog Tijd van uitgeverij Walburg Pers en Amsterdam University Press, gaat Bart Geeraedts in gesprek met Esther Captain en Onno Sinke over hun laatste boek Het geluid van geweld...

The Local Democracy Academy 2022 (Visby, Sweden) awarded the best conference paper to PhD researcher Yogi Permana for his paper 'Drainage politics: The flood management in Indonesian cities'. The conference, hosted by the Swedish International Centre...