Peter Versteeg – The Anthropology Newspaper

Pardoning the innocent: the early modern witch hunt as traumatic heritage?

A History Month (Maand van de Geschiedenis) contribution by Peter Versteeg We live in a time when calls for public apologies for all kinds of historical wrongs are…

Post date 28th October 2022
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Bystander: On a migration experience

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By Peter Versteeg A waiting room with benches and very bright light from a fluorescent tube. Clothes and shoes lying all around. There’s sand on the floor. I…

Post date 9th January 2019
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Living with the End

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By Peter Versteeg Recently Chris Cornell, singer of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, died. Soundgarden is probably best known for their early nineties song ‘Black Hole Sun’, whic…

Post date 26th June 2017
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Anthropology as post-hermeneutics

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Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole, by Lawrence Weiner, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1991). by Peter Versteeg The first thing that came…

Post date 14th March 2017
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Keulen: een urban legend?

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Post date 11th January 2016
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