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.

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

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.

Investigating the contribution of interpreters, informants, hunters and guides in the making of colonial scientific knowledge.

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)…

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

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.

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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.

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…

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Het zichtbaar maken van ongeschreven verhalen van inheemse culturen en volken van de Cariben. Dat doet de tentoonstelling ‘Caribbean Ties’ in de Oude UB.

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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.

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.

In 2007 zetten landen hun handtekening onder de VN Verklaring over de Rechten van Inheemse Volkeren. Leidse wetenschappers helpen, samen met wetenschappers en activisten in het veld, bij het in de praktijk brengen van deze afspraken. Ze brengen inheemse talen in kaart voor onderwijs en komen op voor…

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…

The research provides insight into disease behavior in both rural and semi-urban areas in Serengeti in Tanzania.

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…

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?

By documenting lexical and morpho-syntactic patterns among P’urhepecha speakers in Mexico and the US diaspora, this project will investigate the sources of language variation. The ensuing online dialect atlas will serve as an online resource for speakers, learners and researchers of the language.

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?

Een delegatie uit Taiwan overhandigde op 28 februari 175 boeken en tijdschriften aan de Leidse universiteit. Het cadeau is bedoeld als dank voor het Leidse onderzoek naar de periode dat de VOC gevestigd was op Formosa, zoals Taiwan vroeger heette.

Een delegatie uit Taiwan overhandigde op 28 februari 175 boeken en tijdschriften aan de Leidse universiteit. Het cadeau is bedoeld als dank voor het Leidse onderzoek naar de periode dat de VOC gevestigd was op Formosa, zoals Taiwan vroeger heette.

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…

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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.

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.

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

Ons onderwijsaanbod is breed en divers. Hieronder vindt u alle informatie over de vakken die door de afdeling Bedrijfswetenschappen worden verzorgd. Als u op een vak klikt, wordt u doorgeleid naar de studiegids.

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.

Forgotten Lineages explores the paths through which generations of formally enslaved and their descendants gradually forgot their past of enslavement under Dutch and British imperial rule and became local subjects in Sri Lanka and South Africa. It explores why and how forgetting rather than memory became…

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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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…

In het academisch jaar 2023-2024 biedt het interdisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma Sociale Veerkracht en Veiligheid vier vakken aan voor studenten die beginnen met het derde jaar van hun bachelor. Deze vakken zijn te volgen binnen de ruimte voor keuzevakken. Je kunt de vakken afzonderlijk als keuzevak…

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.

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