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New Review 2008

The Indian Economic and Social History Review (Sage Publications) has published a review of Els Jacobs' Merchant in Asia. You can read the review here.

New August: Book on the origins of the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden

Out now: Royal Cabinets and Auxiliary Branches. Origins of the National Museum of Ethnology 1816-1883 by Rudolf Effert (Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum van Volkenkunde Leiden, no. 37. 340 pp., ill., incl. bibl., index and annexes. ISBN 978-90-5789-159-5, € 45,00) More information can be found on the series page of RMV. 

New June: ILLA Vol. 7

Vol 7 in our ILLA Series: Uchumataqu: The lost language of the Urus of Bolivia - A grammatical description of the language as documented between 1894 and 1952 by Katja Hannß.

New April: Mauritiana 3

A new volume in our Series Mauritiana: Vol. 3: Brazilië in de Nederlandse archieven (1624 - 1654). Documenten in het Koninklijk Huisarchief en in het Archief van de Staten-Generaal / O Brasil em arquivos neerlandeses (1624 - 1654). Documentos no arquivo da Casa Real e no Arquivo dos Estados Gerais

On the 10th of April, both President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brasil and Her Majesty Queen Beatrix have received a copy of the book during the President's State Visit to the Netherlands.

Reviews of Grounding the Past

A review of Alexander Geurds' Grounding the Past was published in Public Archaeology Vol. 7, no. 1 (March 2008), written by Lisa Breglia.
Another review of Grounding the past was published in Antiquity 82 (2008).

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