1,164 search results for “material culture” in the Public website
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Thunderstorm: A small cultural history (1752-1830) (in Dutch)
More on the Dutch webpage.
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The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia. A Cultural History
This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels.
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‘Heritage decisions limit our ability to imagine alternative forms of society’
It is difficult to imagine a society other than a hierarchical nation-state. This is in part because we neglect alternative forms from the past, argues archaeologist Lewis Borck in the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology.
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Tomer Fishman
Science
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Shiza Aslam
Science
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Architecture on the move
How did people in the latter part of the Late Bronze Age organize themselves in order to be able to erect massive structures such as tholos tombs, citadels and how did they interact with these materials and circumstances while constructing? What impact did such a changing landscape have on their day-to-day…
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CrossRoads: European cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history (1920-1950)
This project aims to revisit the relationship between the European cultural agenda and the local identity formation process, and social and religious transformations of Arab Christian communities in Palestine, when the British ruled via the Mandate. What was the role of culture in European policies…
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Gül Aktürk Hauser
Faculteit Archeologie
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Wim Tigges
Faculty of Humanities
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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Ilios Willemars
Faculty of Humanities
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Alette Vonk
Faculty of Humanities
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Ben Arps
Faculty of Humanities
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Culture, History and Society (BA Major of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges)
Today, globalization makes us all aware of how closely we are connected to, and often dependent upon, the actions of people who are distant from us. Human migration and economic liberalization have confronted local communities with changes happening on a global level. How can we devise ways to share…
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The recording industry and ‘regional’ culture in Indonesia : the case of Minangkabau
This book explores chronologically, for the first time, the representation and redefinition of Indonesia’s regional cultures through recording media, from the introduction of the gramophone record through the current video compact disc (VCD) era, taking as case study the Minangkabau ethnic group.
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Internationalisation of the bachelor's programme in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University
What are the social, cultural, and/or educational consequences and challenges linked to the introduction of the international bachelor's programme in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology?
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Nils Pauliks
Science
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The familiar other: Cultural representations and Netherlands-Iran relations, 1959-1979
In the study of West-East relations, difference often takes centre stage. This holds for both culturalist and postcolonial perspectives. By contrast, in my investigation of Netherlands-Iran political relations in the 1960s and 1970s, I will focus on the role of SIMILARITY. What lay at the root of the…
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National Culture and Africa Revisited: Ethnolinguistic Group Data From 35 African Countries
This study seeks to partially fill the knowledge gap about national culture in Africa, basing its research on data on ethnolinguistic groups (instead of administrative regions).
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Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India
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…
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VICI winner Cwiertka: ‘I am contrary by nature’
Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden Professor of Modern Japan Studies, was already the recipient of a VENI and a VIDI grant. Now she has also been granted a VICI, worth 1.5 million euro, for her research project Garbage Matters: A Comparative History of Waste in East Asia. ‘I want to do something that hasn’t…
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seinem Leben und Umfeld, seiner Vokalmusik und seinem praktischen Material zum Basso continuo-Spiel
The thesis presents a new perspective on Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (ca.1580-1651), who is nowadays only famous for his works for theorbo and lute, his remarkable output of vocal music of all genres being still mostly neglected from musicologists and performers.
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Carlos Roos Muñoz
Faculty of Humanities
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Berry Dongelmans
Faculty of Humanities
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Enrico Odelli
Faculty of Humanities
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Thato Magano
Faculty of Humanities
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Chi Zhang
Faculteit Archeologie
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Manfred Horstmanshoff
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Bisschop
Faculty of Humanities
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Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present (research) (MA)
In the research master Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present at Leiden University you will be at the forefront of a new approach to understand how politics and identities in Europe are conceived.
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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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Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture, and the Environment
The Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture, and the Environment (BASCE) is a platform for all those who are actively engaged in ecocriticism to discuss their various endeavours with peers from different disciplines and an array of intellectual, creative, or activist pursuits.
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CfP - Materiality Workshop (Dublin)
The Early Irish Hands project is inviting applications for a one-day Work-in-Progress workshop on materiality. Deadline: 31 January 2023.
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Greek criticism and Latin literature. Classicism and cultural interaction in the late republican and early imperial Rome
This project examines the intriguing relationship between Greek literary criticism and Latin literature in Rome (first centuries BC and AD).
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Transnational and Cross-Cultural Agents in the 17th Century Overseas Expansion
Why is Crossnational and Cross-cultural agents such as Henrich Carloff and Willem Leyel important when studying Early Modern expansion?
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The Informed Performer- Towards a bio-culturally informed performers’ practice
Playing a musical instrument is generally considered to be a complex human behaviour involving the integration and coordination of a broad range of human functions such as perception, imagination, memory, information processing, emotion, communication, and dexterity.
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Relentlessly Plain
Understanding Late Neolithic Ceramic Containers from Upper Mesopotamia
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Periphery Matters: A Cultural Biography of Peking Opera in Hong Kong
Pui Lun Chan defended his thesis on 12 September 2017
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Digital warfare in the Sahel: popular networks of war and Cultural Violence
This interdisciplinary study focuses on (trans)national ethnic and popular networks, combining historical-ethnographic and computational methods to understand the ‘workings’ of networked conflict interfering in the increasingly violent conflict in the Sahel (Africa) and beyond. The project focuses on…
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terpenoid indole alkaloids in Catharanthus roseus cell suspension cultures
Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Verpoorte, Co-Promotores: N.R. Mustafa, A.E. Schulte
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Chris Flinterman
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den Bergh
Faculty of Humanities
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Svetlana Kharchenkova
Faculty of Humanities
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The Walking Dead at Saqqara. The Making of a Cultural Geography
The main case study of the project is the cultural geography of Saqqara, the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and its development.
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representation of post-nuclear landscapes in contemporary art and culture
How does contemporary art and culture represent nuclear contamination in post-nuclear landscapes?
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Language with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and their Culture
This 862-page monograph is a grammar of Thangmi, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the districts of Dolakha and Sindhupalcok in central-eastern Nepal.
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Visualizing the classics: Reading surimono and kyōka books as social and cultural history
D.P. Kok defended his thesis on 10 October 2017
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Building cultures of legality: lawmaking and anxiety in the office of the Governor General.
Building cultures of legality: lawmaking and anxiety in the office of the Governor General.