In this series, we invite anthropologists to share stories of growth, change, and discovery throughout their careers. By reflecting on the life choices that shaped them, the unexpected moments in the field that shifted their…
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Sam Heeremans deelt een introspectieve ervaring van ontmoeting met Marlies, een doula met diepe wortels in haar stad. Na een inspirerende tocht langs de vestingwallen, ontdekt Sam de kracht van verhalen en de steun van een gemeenschap. Deze ontdekking helpt hem herinneren aan de essentie van authenticiteit, en leidt tot een doorbraak in zijn schrijversblok.
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By Hannan van Rooij – In 2022, with a group of friends I was planning to participate in the Mongol Rally. This is a contest where people drive from Londen to Ulaanbaatar in the most…
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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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A History Month (Maand van de Geschiedenis) contribution by Peter Versteeg – We live in a time when calls for public apologies for all kinds of historical wrongs are everyday business. Recent attention to victims…
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By Herbert Ploegman; Didi Boldewijn, Maya Roettger and Lorenzo Horwitz; Alice Riva, Claudia Rapisarda, Elisabeth Jongmans and Jasper Schotte; Ashley Prather and Maira van Emden Two crumpled up sheets of paper: the only traces left…
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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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Image from a Dutch high school history book. Photo by author. By Sientje Trip When browsing through one of the history books of the high school I researched I came across some paragraphs on the…
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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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