anthropology

Field:Early modern Southeast Asian history, with specialization on Indonesia and Malaysia
Country of origin: USA
Period of stay at IIAS: 29 May - 28 August 2008
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Department of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Research topic: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period
Field:Social Anthropology, Southeast Asian Studies
Country of origin: Singapore
Period of stay at IIAS: 25 November 2008 – 20 January 2009
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies
Research topic: The Gift of Territory: The Orang Suku Laut of Indonesia
Field:Cultural and Social Anthropology
Country of origin: Taiwan
Period of stay at IIAS: 15 July 2008 – 14 October 2008
Status: Affiliated Fellow, sponsored by the National Science Counsil, Taiwan
Home institute: Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Research topic: Gods on Deeds: Engaged Religions among the Chinese in Malacca, Malaysia
Field:Cultural Anthropology
Country of origin: The Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS: 15 August - 15 November 2007
Status: Fellow
Home institute: Faculty of Education and Social Work University of Sydney Australia
Research topic: Dress and Identity Construction in the Netherlands East Indies

Julian C. H. Lee

Field: Political Anthropology
Country of origin: Malaysia
Period of stay at IIAS: 08/10/2009 - 24/10/2009
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent
Research topic: Islamization and Activism in Malaysia

Field:Social Anthropology, Folk Religion, Tourism
Country of origin: China
Period of stay at IIAS: June 20, 2007 – September 17, 2007
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Chinese Academy of Social Science
Research topic: Historical Memory and Identity: A Historical Anthropology Study of Manzu

Markus Schleiter

Field: Ethnology / Social Anthropology
Country of origin: Germany
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/10/2007 - 30/09/2009
Status: Affiliated fellow, sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Home institute: Department of Anthropology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg
Research topic: Localized Statehood: Social and Cultural Practices of a 'Tribal' Development Project in India

Field:Anthropology and Art
Country of origin: USA
Period of stay at IIAS: 20 January – 1 April 2008
Status: Associate Professor of Anthropology and Art
Home institute: State University of New York - Potsdam
Research topic: China on Display: Past and Present Practices of Selecting, Exhibiting, and Viewing Chinese Visual and Material Culture.

Prasanna Kumar Patra

Field: Anthropology, Japanese Studies
Country of origin: India
Period of stay at IIAS: 15/12/2005 - 15/11/2008
Status: Research fellow
Home institute: IIAS
Research topic: Emerging Issues in Genetic Sampling and Data Banking in India - a community based perspective

Field:Anthropology
Country of origin: the Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 February 2009 – 1 September 2009
Status: Professor of Social Anthropology
Home institute: VU University Amsterdam
Research topic: Sacred canopies in Vietnam: Religious and ritual sacralizations of everyday practice.