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Mapping Identity in Dutch Colonial Sri Lanka (1658-1796)
At the heart of this study is a thorough inquiry of categorisations of social identity used in the VOC’s record-keeping bureaucracy. How were service, occupational and caste groups classified and shaped by the VOC?
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Veni grant for research on ‘lost pearl’ in Buddhist philosophy
University lecturer in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy Jingjing Li has been awarded a Veni grant for her research on feminist theories within the Buddhist philosophy of consciousness-only. Jingjing Li explains her plans and the importance of her research.
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Globalization and Modernity in Asia: Performative Moments
Much has been said regarding the global flows of information that are characteristic of modernity; it has been frequently stressed that these conduits are so deeply embedded that local or national environments may be imagined as having a global span. Thus, while we are now well aware that the imagination…
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Strategies of silence in an age of transparency: Navigating HIV and visibility in Aceh, Indonesia
Article by Annemarie Samuels in History and Anthropology
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Urbanism in the Roman frontier provinces Germania Superior, Raetia and Noricum
What was the nature of the urban network in the Roman provinces of Germania Superior, Raetia and Noricum and how stood this in relation with economic and social developments?
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Compact Cinematics: The Moving Image in the Age of Bit-Sized Media
Compact Cinematics challenges the dominant understanding of cinema to focus on the various compact, short, miniature, pocket-sized forms of cinematics that have existed from even before its standardization in theatrical form, and in recent years have multiplied and proliferated, taking up an increasingly…
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Granular Flows: Fluidization and Anisotropy
Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke
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Islamic courts and women's divorce rights in Indonesia: the cases of Cianjur and Bulukumba
This book presents the results of a research about the Islamic courts of Cianjur in West Java, and Bulukumba in South Sulawesi and the role they play in local divorce practices.
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Attacks on hash functions and applications
Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger
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Conversations with other (alt-right) women: How do alt-right female influencers narrate a far-right identity?
In this article, Maria-Elena Kisyova, Yannick Veilleux-Lepage and Vanessa Newby shed some light on how a small but highly visible group of influencers are actively working to promote a dangerous far-right ideology.
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The process of doing ethnographic research enables you to develop the capacity to engage, analyse and report from a social science perspective.
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Crashing, Caring and Cashing in: An Ethnography of Motor Insurance and Road Accidents in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Part of ‘Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance’, an ERC Consolidator project of Erik Bähre.
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Unity and Diversity: Negotiating Islam
From the formative period of Islam to the contemporary world, Muslims have negotiated changing modalities of being Muslim.
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A Grammar of Mandarin
A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin by Jeroen Wiedenhof combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth.
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Political Muslims: Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context
An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.
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Language, law and loanwords in early medieval Gaul: language contact and studies in Gallo-Romance phonology
On October 9th, Peter Alexander Kerkhof succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Peter Alexander on this great result.
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Risky Business: Agricultural Insurance and Morality in Maharashtra
Part of ‘Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance’, an ERC Consolidator project of Erik Bähre.
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A connected history of eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine and European cultural diplomacy (1860–1948)
This special issue of Contemporary Levant critically explores, at a micro and macro level, the structural role and religious, cultural and political interactions of the Greek-Orthodox, Melkite and Syriac communities in late Ottoman and Mandate Syria and Palestine.
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Islam in the West
Islam is often studied as a distinct and uniform phenomenon that is or should be kept private, and stands apart from any other human activity, be it in the field of economics, law or politics.
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Green Bikes & Repair Points
Bikes are one of the most sustainable ways of travel which use should be promoted by the University.
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Landscape Protection in International Law
Amy Strecker assesses the institutional framework for landscape protection, analyses the interplay between landscape and human rights, and links the etymology and theory of landscape with its articulation in law.
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Women Writing Mexico (WWM)
Women Writing Mexico (WWM) is a network of women and men concerned with the human rights crisis in Mexico and more specifically, with the impact of structural forms of poverty, everyday violence, and discrimination based on gender, race, social class, and ethnicity, that particularly have an impact…
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Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600–1914
Bringing together the most current research on the relationship between crime and gender in the West between 1600 and 1914, this authoritative volume places female criminality within its everyday context.
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The Complete Archaeology of Greece
This book covers the story of Greece and its central role in our understanding of European civilization, from the Palaeolithic era (400,000 BP) to the early modern period (1950 AD).
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The cognitive continuum of electronic music
How do we experience electronic music? How does electronic music operate on perceptual, cognitive and affective levels? What are the common concepts activated in the listener’s mind when listening to electronic music? Why and how are these concepts activated?
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Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking
This book brings together new research on the practices of newsmaking.
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Typological tendencies in verse and their cognitive grounding
On May 3rd, Varun de Castro Arrazola succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Varun on this great result.
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News in a Glasshouse: Media, Publics, and Senses of Belonging in the Dutch Caribbean
On the 23d of May, Sanne Rotmeijer successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Sanne on this achievement!
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Freedom in Captivity: Negotiations of Belonging along Kashmir's Frontier
How do borderland dwellers living along militarised frontiers negotiate regimes of state security and their geopolitical location in everyday life? What might 'freedom' mean to those who do not resist captivity engendered by borders? Focusing on the predicaments of a double-minority, Radhika Gupta examines…
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Precarious Modernities
Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
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Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline
As soon as young children are introduced to rules and start to learn to obey to those rules, it can be difficult for parents to remain sensitive when their children try to bend or break those rules. The short-term (preventive) VIPP-SD intervention aims at enhancing parental sensitivity in interaction…
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Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies: Private Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884–1914)
Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. It highlights the experiences and perceptions of colonisers and how they portrayed and re-interpreted their identities in Afric…
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Conflict continuities
Many conflicts in Africa have been studied and described as location and time bound. Yet conflict is rarely confined and contained, and instead reaches across communities, borders, and generations.
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State, Society and Labour: A Social History of Iranian Textile workers, 1906-1941
This research investigates everyday lives and workplace experiences of Iranian workers employed at textile industry, which was the second biggest industry after oil following the latter’s discovery in 1908.
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Innovation in tradition
This dissertation explores the history of the language of a manuscript known as Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov 1607).
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The Cinematic Santri : Youth Culture, Tradition and Technology in Muslim Indonesia
The Cinematic Santri explores the rise and course over the last ten years of cinematic practices among a younger generation of NU associates (Nahdlatul Ulama), the largest traditionalist Muslim group in Indonesia and elsewhere.
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English Grammar through Dutch Eyes
A contrastive English grammar with the focus on the differences with Dutch.
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Ironies of Solidarity
Ironies of Solidarity is an ethnographic study of how financial products and services affect inequalities and conflicts in South Africa.
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Patterns of Living in Southern Africa, 1780s to the present
Southern Africa has a rich tradition of social history, one inspired by the tumultuous changes that have regularly convulsed the region from the 1780s onwards. Scholars have always sought to understand what these changes meant for everyday life and emphasised a perspective of marginal groups, how these…
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Slow Painting: Contemplation and Critique in the Digital Age
The abundance of images in our everyday lives-and the speed at which they are consumed-seems to have left us unable to critique them. To rectify this situation, artists such as Daniel Richter, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Artur Zmijewski have demonstrated that painting is brilliantly equipped to produce…
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Complaining as a moral narrative: An ethnographic study of complaints, morality and bureaucracy at a Dutch health insurer
Part of ‘Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance’, an ERC Consolidator project of Erik Bähre.
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Digital Activism in Asia: Good, Bad, and Banal Politics Online
This article introduces the special issue on ‘Digital Activism’ by exploring some of the trends in social media activism and scholarship thereof. The authors ask to what extent this literature helps us understand Asian forms of online activism, which forms of activism have relatively done well, and…
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Valuing lives and deaths: an ethnography of life insurance amongst African Americans in New Orleans
Part of ‘Moralising Misfortune: A comparative anthropology of commercial insurance’, an ERC Consolidator project of Erik Bähre.
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The Spirit of Matter
In 'The Spirit of Matter', Peter Pels explores the significance of emotionally evocative objects, challenging the denial of their existence in modern 'mind over matter' ideology.
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Interactional sociolinguistics
How do social and political developments influence the process of meaning-making in different parts of the world? Why is a particular discourse interpreted in numerous ways depending on the context it is produced and propagated? And how are culture, politics, history, and language intertwined?
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