erik de maaker (@emaaker) 's Twitter Profile
erik de maaker

@emaaker

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Our book, Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography: A Practical and Theoretical Guide, is about to be published by Routledge on November 30th (bit.ly/3BNXEdk). The book details how audiovisual and digital anthropology have become intertwined, and prov…lnkd.in/gAwa5QDw

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With some delay, my monograph 'Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India' is now about to be published by Oxford University Press. The book is an outcome of my academic engagement with upland farmers over the pas…lnkd.in/g583qCjj

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The volume which Meenal Tula and I have published in 2020 has been reviewed in the Journal of South Asian Development. The book has been published open access, and can be downloaded from academia.com (lnkd.in/eSR8fC6r). lnkd.in/e7YEUCtr

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I am sharing a news item on my new book, 'Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India', which has now been released by OUP. For those who are interested, the page also has web links to some…lnkd.in/e7APpWMJ lnkd.in/eXS-MRfY

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Very happy with this small grant. It should allow us to gain a better understanding of the growing dependency of highland farmers on marketing produce as 'organic', and how that has an impact on mountain ecologies. Projectpagina:  lnkd.in/erBTX2dN

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Max Kramer (Berlin Free University) has written a thoughtful review of 'Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia' (2020), which nicely summarises the main arguments advanced by the book. lnkd.in/eBzKDCqr #southasia lnkd.in/eG5vq4tv

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We awarded a seed grant to Radhika Gupta (LIAS Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities) & Erik de Maaker (CADS Leiden Social Sciences) for research on ‘Heritage and Climate Governance’. The project will initiate research on how heritage has been/can be mobilized to address climate change governance in Himalayan Asia!

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Farmers of Garo Hills could not sell their produce and left them on the streets for cows to gorge on. 50 years of statehood but no fruit processing unit, no cold storage. Heart-wrenching. Tribal political elite live in luxury and don't care for farmers.Sigh..

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This is Garo Hills in Meghalaya where floods have taken lives and livelihoods. Does India or it's media care about the Northeast and its annual sorrow? No, all obsessed with Delhi's politics, shrill, hate politics and other trivia

This is Garo Hills in Meghalaya where floods have taken lives and livelihoods. Does India or it's media care about the Northeast and its annual sorrow? No, all obsessed with Delhi's politics, shrill, hate politics and other trivia
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Last Saturday, our panel What can be the role of heritage in society? took place at the tail end of the #ESOF2022 conference in Leiden. The setup in the Pieterskerk was new for us, with our audience being able to hear what we said via a headset (a format…lnkd.in/eMuHvN4u

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The latest issue of the European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (open source) has four essays that were written in the context of an online graduate seminar organised late 2020 by Dan Smyer Yü and myself, with a grant from the Hima…lnkd.in/eqUGG_yb lnkd.in/ecdF-bXJ

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Yesterday, I was given the opportunity to give a lecture on ‘Heritage and the imagination of futures’, at a summerschool on the Politics of Heritage of The EUROPAEUM in Leuven (Belgium). It was great to share some of my current research on heritage landsc…lnkd.in/e8n3Bxim

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The NWA (Dutch National Science) agenda has provided us with a great opportunity to research affective dimensions of global garment commodity chains. This will allow us to explore, between the Netherlands and India, how the alienat…lnkd.in/eync2JNw lnkd.in/e7rKPM97

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I am sharing a review of my monograph 'Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India', (OUP India), which has recently been published in South Asia: Journal Of South Asian Studies (Journal of South Asian Studies). Gr…lnkd.in/eY4tgUua

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Anthropologists at Leiden working with Asia at spread out across various departments, which means that we have to make an effort to meet. Gratefully, our department encourages us to do so, and facilitated what turned out this time…lnkd.in/ebjs275W lnkd.in/eKBT_Bia

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Yesterday afternoon, the arts committee of our faculty asked me to say a few words about a picture of mine, which is included in a travelling exhibition of LeidenGlobal. The picture shows one of our neighbours in Garo Hills (India), some time ago, prepari…lnkd.in/e_BfTuvX

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Our colleagues at CADS/ Asia Research Cluster have taken the initiative to organize a book launch on March 9, 15:30 hrs at PdlC/FSW Leiden for our recently published books. Looking forward! Institute of Cultural Anthropology and D…lnkd.in/eAHVnr22 lnkd.in/eh6bqJFm