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?

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

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.

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…

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

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

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What categories exist in the languages of pastoralists? Do these semantic concepts reflect universal or languagespecific tendencies? What (environment? culture?) governs the similarities (or the differences) attested crosslinguistically in cattle colour systems?

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…

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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.

Heart failure is a major health care problem with high mortality.

This thesis presents the systematics, epidermal defense, and bioprospecting of wild orchids.

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.

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.

What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

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…

Promotor: J. Zaanen, Co-Promotor: V. Juricic

The research described in this thesis focused on the use of bioorthogonal antigens to investigate immunological processes in antigen presenting cells. Bioorthogonal antigens are antigenic proteins produced through recombinant expression in a methionine auxotrophic E. coli strain.

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?

Promotor: F.J. van Lunteren, E. Jorin

Projecten van de afdeling Environmental Biology

From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular…

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.

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.

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

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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”…

De afdeling Environmental Biology (CML-EB) houdt zich bezig met vraagstukken rondom biodiversiteit en natuurlijke hulpbronnen op het platteland in westerse en niet-westerse gebieden.

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.

Studying the impact of urbanisation on the respiratory health of past Dutch populations (1200-1850 CE).

Do sustainability values play a role in motivating people to act for biodiversity in successful projects and in successful leadership action? And how could these values be incorporated in current economic valuation methods?

This study has been carried out in the community of Sukamiskin, a kelurahan (‘village’) in Bandung, the Capital of West Java Province, located in the Sunda Region of Indonesia.

The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).

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Prof.dr. T.P.M. Vliet Vlieland

Prof.dr. T.P.M. Vliet Vlieland

A P300-based Brain Computer Interface character speller, also known as P300 speller, has been an important communication pathway, under extensive research, for people who lose motor ability, such as patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or spinal-cord injury because a P300 speller allows human-beings…

Op 23 februari 2022 verdedigde Cale Davis het proefschrift 'Prosecutorial Discretion in International Criminal Justice'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. C. Stahn en dr. J.C. Powderly.