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Archaeology students play important role in visit indigenous Ka’apor people27 June 2023As part of Mariana Françozo’s BRASILAE project, a group of representatives of the Ka’apor people was invited to visit Leiden. The Ka’apor, an indigeno...
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Exhibition: The untold Caribbean story13 March 2023The Caribbean Ties exhibition at Oude UB aims to reveal the many unwritten stories of indigenous cultures and peoples of the Caribbean. It rewrites th...
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The wisdom of the Nahua10 June 2021Indigenous philosophies have been ignored for too long. This prompted Osiris González Romero to study the wisdom of the Nahua in Mexico. Their philoso...
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Local Panama communities work with archaeologists on historic land rights09 February 2021The question of land property titles is a common source of conflict between indigenous communities and federal authorities all over the Americas. A ne...
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Corn connects many generations of Maya18 May 2020That corn was highly important in the Maya culture is something that Genner Llanes Ortiz, himself a Maya from the Mexican province of Yucatan, has alw...
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Genner Llanes-Ortiz’s Leiden Experience: ‘Indigenous stories contain knowledge from deep past’14 March 2019Back in 2016, Genner Llanes-Ortiz joined the Faculty of Archaeology as an assistant professor in the Heritage of Indigenous Peoples research group. Ge...
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Research into colonial encounters wins Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship06 February 2018Archaeologist Corinne Hofman wins the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship 2018/19 for research into the changing world of indigenous peoples as a result ...
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Caribbean Collections in European Museums and the Question of Returns20 December 2017Mariana de Campos Françoso and Amy Strecker published a new article in the International Journal of Cultural Property last week entitled 'Caribbean Co...
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Indigenous people as essential research partners16 November 2017The knowledge held by indigenous people is essential if you want to study the history or the language of a particular region. Leiden archaeologists an...
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Araceli Rojas presents her book to Mexican communities04 January 2017On November 25, Dr Araceli Rojas presented her book El tiempo y la sabiduría: un calendario sagrado entre los ayöök de Oaxaca. The event took place in...
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Caribbean heritage under threat18 October 2016Loss of cultural heritage first brings to mind the destruction in the Middle East. But in the Caribbean it is mainly natural processes such as coastal...
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Drones help write new history of Caribbean13 October 2016Drones are proving to be a good means of mapping man-made changes in the landscape. Geophysicist Till Sonneman and his colleagues (archaeology) are ex...
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Reconciling conflicting interests24 December 2015A far-reaching understanding of human behaviour is necessary to get to grips with conflicts in society and to encourage parties to meet each other hal...
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ERC grant for Maarten Jansen23 November 2011
The European Research Council has awarded an Advanced Grant to Prof. dr. Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen for the research project "Time in Intercultural Conte...