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  Tullio Abruzzese PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

• Cultural Semantics and World View: Fulɓe Juguureeɓe (Togo) Research project

  This PhD project investigates how grammatical features and lexical elaboration in Fulfulde Juguureere reflect aspects of cattle culture.

• Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Research project

  Research on the global field of museums, heritage, commemoration, consumption and material culture

• Migrants, welfare and social citizenship in postcolonial Europe Research output

  This paper explores how citizenship is enacted and experienced in welfare encounters for Egyptian migrant parents in Paris, Amsterdam, and Milan, highlighting the importance of social citizenship and personal interactions in shaping belonging.

• Women at the Cutting Edge. Assessing the gendered impacts of industrial logging on well-being in Solomon Islands Research project

  How do women and men living in logging concessions in Solomon Islands experience the impacts of logging during and after logging operations? This project assesses how and why industrial logging affects men and women differently. Using insights from an ethnographic case-study of the logging industry…

• The Future is Elsewhere: Towards a Comparative History of the Futurities of the Digital (R)evolution Research project

  How did digital intermediality symbolise and facilitate the transfer of content from popular culture into policy statements and vice versa in the period between 1945 and the new millenium?

• HAPPY - Qualitative research in Higher education teaching APProaches for sustainabilitY and well-being in Bhutan Research project

  This 3-year EU Erasmus+ co-funded project focuses on the strengthening and improvement of teaching qualitative research methods across a range of disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Bhutan.

• Review Reworking Culture by Erik de Maaker Research output

  'Reworking Culture is based on the author’s ethnographic engagement with people in and around the village of Sadolpara in the West Garo Hills in highland Northeast India (HNEI), where he conducted more than 20 years of fieldwork.'

• Doing Anthropological Research - 7 lecture course Event - 3 November 2025
• An anthropological rethinking of the Pintados and early tattooing in the Visayas, Central Philippines Research output

  In this paper, Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio and Myfel D. Paluga recast new light on the historical tattooing of the “Pintados,” or the the name by which the inhabitants of the Visayas Islands (in the central Philippines) were called by Spanish documenters in the sixteenth century. This is one of their…

• The anthropological signification of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in Visayas and Mindanao epics Research output

  This paper explores the long-term endurance of “breath” as a schema of personhood in the Austronesian-speaking world, from a comparative-ethnographic approach to the “Man with No Breath” figure featured in Philippine epics. This is one of two contributions from Myfel D. Paluga and Andrea Malaya M.…

• NESA Masterclasses for Anthropology Phd Students NESA | Netherlands School of Anthropology

  NESA offers a one-year teaching and training programme especially for upcoming and all first year PhD candidates, consisting of 5 masterclasses on current and trending theoretical debates in our discipline, an extensive methodology training and occasionally a cohort meeting off campus.

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  Dilara Erzeybek PhD candidate

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Metje Postma Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• What Netflix Got Wrong About Indigenous Storytelling in Sapiens Research output

  Filipino anthropologists Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio and Myfel D. Paluga look back at the groundbreaking Netflix show Trese and what it missed about the stories of Indigenous peoples. They published the article 'What Netflix Got Wrong About Indigenous Storytelling' in the digital Anthropology magazine…

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  Thinley Dema PhD candidate

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Radhika Gupta Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• Religion, Culture and the Question of Indigeneity in Meghalaya Research output

  'During my first visit to Meghalaya in December 2023, my dear friend in Jowai, Banbha, took me on his motorbike to Nartiang. He wanted to show me the historic site of monoliths. For many, it is a place of deep significance, but this significance depends on whom you ask. To some, it is sacred, where…

• Leiden University Medical Anthropology Network (LUMAN)

  The Leiden University Medical Anthropology Network (LUMAN) brings medical anthropologists together with the aim of fostering interfaculty collaborations and creating common ground for working interdisciplinary on health-related themes in Leiden and beyond.

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  Reza Shaker Ardekani Guest researcher

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Esther van de Camp Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Rodrigo Ochigame Assistant Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Marianne Maeckelbergh Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Jan Jansen Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• Globalizing Palliative Care? A Multi-sited Ethnographic Study Research project

  This project investigates the globalization and cultural mediation of palliative care practices, policies and discourses.

• The Cinematic Santri : Youth Culture, Tradition and Technology in Muslim Indonesia Research output

  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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  Fien Steenbergen PhD candidate

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• Information activities Sociology of Policy in Practice (MSc)

  Information Activities online and on campus Master Cultural Anthropology

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  Erik Bähre Associate Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Caro Aalderink Study Adviser

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• Heritage and Climate Governance: Potentials and Pitfalls Research project

  This pilot project will initiate research on how heritage has been and can be mobilized to address climate change governance in Himalayan Asia. Climate adaptation strategies frequently include the sourcing of heritage, encompassing landscapes, built environments 4 and cultural practices. However, effective…

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  Guita Winkel Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

• Borderland Narratives Research output

  Cultural Anthropologist Erik de Maaker published, together with Monica Janoswki (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), Stories across Borders: Myths of Origin and Their Contestation in the Borderlands of South and Southeast Asia in Southeast Asian Studies (SEAS).

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  Ratna Saptari Soetikno Slamet Guest Researcher

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Cristina Grasseni Professor Cultural Anthropology

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Nikkie Buskermolen PhD candidate / Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Miriam Waltz Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Luuk Siewers PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Syeda Shawkat PhD / guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Bruno Braak Guest researcher

  Faculty of Law

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  Katrien Klep Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Law

• Diversity Outdoors: Embodied Ethnoracial Inequalities and Outdoor Recreation in Europe Research project

  Through a comparative analysis of participation in outdoor recreation in Europe, this project seeks to investigate how social inequalities are embodied.

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  Elmer Veldkamp University Lecturer Korean Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Diah Angendari PhD candidate / contract

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Arman Hasan PhD candidate

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Siyun Wu

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Tim van de Meerendonk Lecturer

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Elsa Mertala PhD candidate

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• Medical anthropology in Indonesia News - 9 February 2024

  A lively discussion on impact and society.

• Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India Research output

  Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India provides intimate insights into the lives of hill farmers and the challenges they face in day-to-day life. Focusing on the ongoing reinterpretation of traditions, or customs, the book critiques the all too often taken-for-granted…