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Apology

by Peter Versteeg – “Apology” is another word for acknowledgmentAcknowledging the past, but not just any kind of pastIt is a formal word for a moral occasionNo emotion, no affectionIt is neither personal nor individualIt…

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“The Netherlands Meat Land” campaign: Towards an ethnography of meat

By Irene Stengs – On 1 September 2022, the Dutch Central Organisation for the Meat Industry (COV, Centrale Organisatie voor de Vleessector), a partnership consisting of organizations involved in the production and processing of meat…

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Anthropology and religion at the Vrije Universiteit – a short history

By Matthias Teeuwen The Vrije Universiteit originally had a strong confessional commitment to the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and I have always wondered how anthropology meshed with this confessional background. I wondered particularly at…

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Photo Essay: Finding a place for historical nostalgia in Postcolonial Anthropology

by Yatou Sallah I have long been intrigued by the anthropological framing of Africans in the context of postcolonialism. As scholars and theorists in the field attempt to uncover the remnants of the horrendous control…

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