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The Colonization of Freed African Americans in Suriname

Archival Sources relating to the U.S.-Dutch Negotiations, 1860-1866

2019 || Paperback || Michael J. Douma || Leiden University Press

During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln’s administration engaged in protracted negotiations with representatives of the Netherlands to aid in the voluntarily colonization of free African Americans to Suriname. Scores of diplomatic letters in Dutch, English, and French, dating to the period 1862 to 1866 attest to the very real possibility that such a migration stream could have become a reality. They also indicate reasons why this scheme failed: it was bogged down by differe...

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Being Muslim in Indonesia

Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima

2021 || Paperback || Muhammed Adlin Sila || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

How Muslims in Indonesia consider their religious practices, politics and culture as Islamic is described in this volume. By examining the various ways Bima Muslims constitute their Islamic identities and agencies through rituals and festivals, this book argues that religious practice is still vigorous in present Bima. It explores the reproduction of religious meanings among various local Muslims and the differences between social groups. Islam is represented as divided between the traditiona...

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Monsoon Asia

A reader on South and Southeast Asia

2023 || Paperback || Nira Wickramasinghe e.a. || Leiden University Press

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The exposition of artistic research / druk 1

publishing art in academia

2013 || Paperback || M. Schwab e.a. || Leiden University Press

The Exposition of Artistic Research: Publishing Art in Academia introduces the pioneering concept of 'expositions' in the context of art and design research, where practice needs to be exposed as research to enter academic discourse. It brings together reflective and methodological approaches to exposition writing from a variety of artistic disciplines including fine art, music and design, which it links to questions of publication and the use of technology. The book proposes a novel relati...

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Paint Feet on a Snake Simplified character edition

an intermediate Mandarin reader

2015 || Paperback || Lin Chin-hui e.a. || Leiden University Press

This book is intended for Chinese Studies majors, China-focused students in other fields, heritage learners, and professionals. It will help improve vocabulary and grammar competence, and foster reading strategies and writing and translation skills, for use in academic and professional settings.

Paint Feet on a Snake

*is available in full-form and simplified character editions

*is aimed at learners of Mandarin with a command of about 850 characters and 1200 vocabulary items

*is suitable for...

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Archaeological studies Leiden University (ASLU) Akragas

Current issues in the archaeology of a Sicilian polis

2017 || Paperback || Natascha Sojc || Leiden University Press

Over the past few years, the archaeological and architectural investigation of ancient Akragas (modern Agrigento) in Sicily has gathered new momentum. This book brings together various researchers who investigate the Greek period remains of Akragas, an ostentatiously wealthy city state that was politically powerful and culturally formative.

The issues discussed range from methodological approaches and the interpretation of fresh field-data, to concerns of site maintenance and the reconstructio...

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Time, History and Ritual in a K’iche’ Community

contemporary Maya Calendar Knowledge and Practices in the Highlands of Guatemala

2018 || Paperback || Paul van den Akker || Leiden University Press

This work analyzes ritual practices and knowledge related to the Mesoamerican calendar with the aim of contributing to the understanding of the use and conceptualization of this calendar system in the contemporary K'iche' community of Momostenango, in the Highlands of Guatemala. The research presented here discusses the indigenous calendar system, forms of synergy between the Christian and the Highland Guatemalan calendar, the indigenous perception of history and continuity in time-related sy...

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Creating Capitals

The Rationale, Construction, and Function of the Imperial Capitals of Assyria

2020 || Paperback || Aris Politopoulos || Leiden University Press

The creation of new capital cities are watershed moments in the lives of ancient empires. Assyria, arguably the most successful imperial state of the ancient Near East, repeatedly engaged in capital creation. Capital creation denotes the development of a monumental capital, either in a new location or through the profound transformation of a pre-existing settlement. This volume focusses on the rationale, construction, and function of the imperial capitals of Assyria: Kār-Tukultī-Ninurta, Ka...

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Tlamatiliztli: la sabiduria del pueblo nahua

Filosofia intercultural y derecho a la tierra (Mexico)

2021 || Paperback || Osiris Sinuhé González Romero || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

El objetivo de este libro es el análisis sistemático del concepto de sabiduría desarrollado por el pueblo nahua de México, con base en la información proporcionada por las fuentes históricas y la evidencia arqueológica, pero también tomando en consideración tanto el conocimiento que existe en las comunidades nahuas contemporáneas, como el de los investigadores pertenecientes a los pueblos originarios de México. Esta investigación pretende demostrar de qué forma los procesos cogni...

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Archeological Studies Leiden University Case Studies in Archaeological Predictive Modelling

2007 || Paperback || Philip Verhagen || Leiden University Press

Een geschiedenis van de ontwikkeling en toepasbaarheid van voorspellingsmodellen ontwikkeld bij RAAP Archeologisch Adviesbureau

Het afgelopen decennium was een periode van ingrijpende verandering voor de Nederlandse archeologie in het algemeen, en in het bijzonder voor RAAP Archeologisch Adviesbureau, dat in die periode aan de wieg stond van de ontwikkeling van archeologische verwachtingskaarten. De papers in deze dissertatie bespreken de hier verschillende ontwikkelde voorspellingsmodellen en...