National Museum of Ethnology & Sidestone Press
The “Museum Volkenkunde” in Leiden is the Dutch National Museum of Ethnology. It has managed and displayed the national collection of ethnographic material from the early nineteenth century onward. The permanent exhibition contains objects and audiovisual material from all over the world.
The series “Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde” is the official publication series of the research department of the museum. The annual series started just after the WWII in 1947. Beginning in 2009, volumes in this series are published by Sidestone Press.
The series consists of academic monographs focusing on the collections that are in the care of the National Museum of Ethnology, the history of its collections and research related to its objects. The series also includes theoretical works concerned with developments in academic disciplines related to collecting, collection management and presentation.
Recent publications in this series:
Collecting Kamoro. Objects, encounters and representation on the southwest coast of PapuaKaren Jacobs – 2011 – (ISBN: 978-90-8890-088-4) | |
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The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between representation and collecting, the author focuses on the creative and pragmatic agency of Kamoro people in these collecting encounters. not available yet, coming soon
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Sharing Knowledge and Cultural Heritage: First Nations of the Americas. Studies in Collaboration with Indigenous Peoples from Greenland, North and South AmericaLaura van Broekhoven, Cunera Buijs & Pieter Hovens (eds) – 2010 – (ISBN: 978-90-8890-066-2) | |
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Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage is the result of an ‘expert meeting’ held in November 2007, at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, the Netherlands. It testifies to the growing commitment of museum professionals in the twenty-first century to share collections with the descendants of people and communities from whom the collections originated.
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Candi, Space and Landscape. A study on the distribution, orientation and spatial organization of Central Javanese temple remainsVéronique Degroot – 2009 – (ISBN: 978-90-8890-039-6) | |
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The positions of temples in Central Java within the landscape and their architectural designs were determined by socio-cultural, religious and economic factors. This book explores the correlations between temple distribution, natural surroundings and architectural design to understand how Central Javanese people structured the space around them, and how the religious landscape thus created developed.
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