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Objects, Nostalgia and the Dutch Colonial Elite in Times of Transition, ca. 1900–1970

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: This article analyses the role of the changing meanings of material objects in processes of identification, inclusion, and exclusion of people in the (former) colony and the Netherlands between 1900 and 1970. It reveals how and why people and nation-states relate to history, and to the Dutch colonial past in particular. I will argue that objects collected by the European colonial elite and the nostalgic feelings they evoked could be powerful instruments for people’s social well-being and for the social standing of this particular social group in both the (former) colony and the Netherlands.

Source: Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia

DOI: 10.1163/22134379-17004016

Author: Caroline Drieënhuizen

Institutions: The Open University, Open University of the Netherlands

Language: Dutch

Topic: Cultural Identity and Heritage

Subfield: Archeology

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1971917510

FWCI: 2.244

Cites: 48

Cited by: 21

Related to: 10