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The KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies at Leiden was founded in 1851. Its objective is the advancement of the study of the anthropology, linguistics, social sciences, and history of Southeast Asia, the Pacific Area, and the Caribbean. More 

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Image Collection

Visit the Institute's image database, containing historic photographs, prints and drawings

Bhima Swarga: Tafereel van een marteling in de hel, geplaatst in een Balinees landschap. Aquarel (60 x 104 cm) vervaardigd circa 1950 door I Dewa Made Pasek. View Image database.

Latest publications

The Singapore and Melaka Straits, Violence, securit...
Boschberg, Peter

Gender, ritual and social formation in West Papua, A configurational...
Pouwer, Jan

Military Politics , Islam and the Sta...
Mietzner, Marcus

Treasures, Uit de collecties...
Rosmalen, J. van. samenstelling

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* New research project on The Making of Popular Music in Southeast Asia and the Rise of New Audiences

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* New research project on the dismantlement of the Netherlands Antilles

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* Een nieuwe kijk op de historische handel met de West

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Director: G.J. Oostindie
email: kitlv@kitlv.nl
tel: +31 (0) 71 527 2295
fax: +31 (0) 71 527 2638
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