Promotor: G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

This research delves into the unique cultural approach of the Tenggerese people, an Indigenous community in East Java, Indonesia, regarding elderly care. It focuses on their traditional practices of bakti (‘filial piety’) and sayan (‘mutual aid’), deeply ingrained in the community's lifestyle and va…

The different kinds of cultural perspectives on health and disease of the participants are related to their knowledge, beliefs, values and practices manifested in various forms of lifestyle in Indonesia. The cultural diversity of the population is also related to differences in health behaviour.

Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.

This study attempts to understand how indigenous community institutions pose an important role in sustainable community-based development, including the integration between local culture and development.

In times of hardships or crisis, local people know how to deal with it using their resourcefulness. Although efforts are sometimes made by the government to help them, they are fully aware that community support is at least equally important.

Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

The Sundanese people, the largest ethnic group in West Java, have been using traditional medicine for a long time. Known as ubar kampung, Sundanese indigenous knowledge, beliefs and practices of traditional medicine are based on local people’s knowledge and use of Medicinal, Aromatic, and Cosmetic (MAC)…

Who are open-source intelligence activists and how reliable are their contributions to public understanding of Russia’s war in Ukraine?

Promotores: G.A. Persoon, H.H. de Iongh

Sheltering is an immediate human need and determines well-being andhealth.

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Di Marco onderzoekt hoe ouderschap een cruciaal keerpunt vormt in het leven van jonge mensen in Latijns-Amerika, en van invloed is op hun criminele verleden.

Although plant domestication has significantly altered crop genetics and phenotypes, its effects on the taxonomic and functional diversity of plant-associated microbiomes are not well understood.

Indigenous Latin American artifacts have attracted the interest of Europeans since the earliest moment of contact between Europeans and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The ERC-funded BECACO project uses an innovative multidisciplinary framework to investigate the provenance of ethnographic and…

We analyse the link between media consumption and the attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS in Chile. We used data from a sample of 1000 people, obtained in the 2011 wave of the World Values Survey (WVS). We use a logistic binary regression model by maximum likelihood. Our results suggest that…

Op 19 februari promoveert Mariana Martins. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Mariana!

Onlangs ontvingen Wim Voermans, hoogleraar staats- en bestuursrecht en Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, universitair docent bij het Institute of Security and Global Affairs en de afdeling Economie, een subsidie uit het KNAW Fonds Staatsman Thorbecke om hun project met de titel 'People-centered constitutional…

Medewerkers en studenten van het departement Archaeological Heritage and Society van de Faculteit Archeologie onderzoeken welke rol het verleden kan spelen in moderne samenlevingen. Zij willen meer weten over de relaties tussen verleden en heden, en de rol die erfgoed daarbij speelt.

Promotor: J. Kuiper

The research provides insight into disease behavior in both rural and semi-urban areas in Serengeti in Tanzania.

Het zichtbaar maken van ongeschreven verhalen van inheemse culturen en volken van de Cariben. Dat doet de tentoonstelling ‘Caribbean Ties’ in de Oude UB.

We found that, next to the effectiveness of the intervention, it’s also very likely that the intervention is cost-effective compared to attention only.

Kennis van inheemse volkeren is onontbeerlijk als je de geschiedenis of taal van een regio wil bestuderen. Leidse archeologen en taalkundigen zoeken nu samen naar manieren om de lokale bevolking consequenter te betrekken.

The book ‘Bestrijdingsmiddelen en Milieu' gives a transparent overview of facts and figures concerning pesticide use in the Netherlands and the impact of pesticides on the environment.

This Thesis describes the design, synthesis and evaluation as glycoprocessing enzyme inhibitors of focused libraries of iminosugars.

How were the Russians, under early modern conditions, able to incorporate this distant, undeveloped and, because frequent nomadic attacks, dangerous territory? And what role did the Kolyvan-Voskresensk plants play in this process?

Na het ontvangen van je diploma van LUC, kun je als alumni overal ter wereld heen. Velen die je voor zijn gegaan hebben ervoor gekozen om een master als vervolgopleiding te doen. Sommigen beginnen meteen aan hun professionele carrière of volgen een PhD. Door de vele academische vakgebieden die op LUC…

Door lexicale en morfo-syntactische patronen te documenteren onder P'urhepecha-sprekers in Mexico en de Amerikaanse diaspora, zal dit project de bronnen van taalvariatie onderzoeken. De daaropvolgende online dialectatlas zal dienen als een online bron voor sprekers, leerlingen en onderzoekers van de…

Promotor: T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

The availability of indicators based on social media has opened the possibility to track the online interactions between social media users and scholarly entities.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-Promotor: L.W. Chatrou

Microbiome composition of the spermosphere and the rhizosphere of wild and modern bean accessions grown in an agricultural and a native soil from Colombia was characterized by metagenomics and cultivation-dependent approaches.

Promotor: Prof.dr. I.A.G. Snellen, C.U. Keller

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.W. Canters, Prof.dr. T.J. Aartsma

The aim of the research presented in this thesis was to develop new methods forchallenging systems in liquid-state NMR using paramagnetic effects generated by thetwo-armed probe CLaNP-5.

The studies presented in the work show the potential of the integrative use of biophysical data in defining the structural basis of protein interactions.

Improvements of weak gravitational lensing shape measurements are presented and some used for data analysis.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Co-promotor: O.E. Della Pasqua

S.S. Kolipaka’s thesis questions and investigates the survival prospects of reintroduced tigers and their offspring’s in the human dominated landscape of Panna tiger reserve in India.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink, Co-promotor: G. Siegal

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken Co-Promotor: R. Felici

In his dissertation Michiel Hooykaas outlines the results of six empirical research projects focused at biodiversity awareness in the Netherlands, specifically people’s knowledge about animals.

Large carnivores and humans, along with their livestock, have co-existed for thousands of years. However, human population growth and an increase in economic activities are modifying the landscape for large carnivores and their prey.

Promotores: E. van Dijk, G.R. de Snoo. Co-promotor: H. Staats

De Filipijnse antropologen Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio en Myfel D. Paluga blikken terug op de baanbrekende Netflix show Trese en waar het aan ontbrak bij de verhalen van inheemse volken. Zij publiceerden het artikel 'What Netflix Got Wrong About Indigenous Storytelling' in het digitale antropologie tijdschrift…

Big Science, commonly defined as conventional science made big in three dimensions, namely organizations, machines, and politics, brings a plethora of different stakeholders together, often for a long period of time. This includes policymakers, scientists, (scientific) managers as well as local “host”…