Cultural History In Focus | “Collecting in the Colony: Hybridity, Power, and Prestige in the Netherlands East Indies” by Pieter ter Keurs from Indonesia and the Malay World
Collecting in the Colony
Hybridity, Power, and Prestige in the Netherlands East Indies
by Pieter ter Keurs
This article is generously provided for re-publication by Pieter J. ter Keurs.
Pieter ter Keurs
Pieter ter Keurs (1956) is professor of material culture at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. He is also the Head of the Department of Collections and Research at the National Museum of Antiquities.
Formerly, he was a curator at the National Museum of Ethnology, mainly focusing on the Indonesian collections. He did fieldwork in Papua New Guinea (1983/84) and on Enggano Island, Indonesia (1994). In the period 2003-2009 he concentrated on co-operation with museums in Insular Southeast Asia and did research on the history of colonial collecting.
He is specialized in material culture studies, with a particular interest in theory of material culture, in the history and practice of collecting and in cultural heritage. Presently, he is involved in research about Dutch collecting activities in the Mediterranean, in the nineteenth century, and the perception of antiquities in the Netherlands.
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Author | Pieter ter Keurs
Publication | Indonesia and the Malay World Vol. 37, No. 108
Year of Publication | 2009