Abstract

Contemporary Dutch anthropology is little known outside Holland. This is surprising since the Dutch had once a large, far-flung empire and could boast of such names as Wilken, Snouck Hurgronje, and Van Vollenhoven. ' Moreover, Dutch anthropologists now work not only in Indonesia, Surinam, and the Antilles, but all over the world. In particular, they are active in Africa, the Mediterranean area, Europe, Latin America, India, the Philippines, and other parts of Southeast Asia, as well as Japan, Australia, and the Pacific.2 Their output has been substantial. Between 1970 and 1980, 96 doctoral dissertations were submitted to the eight departments of anthropology and non-Western sociology, most of which had sprung up in the immediate postwar period. More than one-third of these studies were written in English. In addition, there was a

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