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Title:Into Africa: Dutch anthropology and the changing colonial situation
Author:Kloos, P.ISNI
Year:1992
Periodical:Antropologische verkenningen
Volume:11
Issue:1
Pages:49-64
Language:English
Geographic terms:Netherlands
Africa
Subjects:African studies
anthropology
Abstract:Prior to World War II sociocultural scientists in the Netherlands demonstrated hardly any interest in African societies and their cultures. Today the scene has changed profoundly. There are scores of anthropologists, historians, political scientists, human geographers, economists, linguists and others with years of fieldwork experience in Africa. When, how, and why did the current interest in Africa, especially Africa South of the Sahara, emerge among Dutch scholars? What kind of anthropology resulted from this emerging interest? This article argues that African studies in the Netherlands are a result of the independence of the former Dutch colony of Indonesia in 1949, and of the postwar expectations regarding economic relations with African countries, which led to the establishment of the 'Afrika Instituut' in 1946. Bibliogr., notes. (Comment by A.A. Trouwborst, in Dutch, in: Antropologische Verkenningen, jrg. 11, nr. 3 (1992), p. 44-46.)
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