About the Caribbean and Amazonia

Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant for Alexander Geurds
Alexander Geurds was awarded a Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant this week. He received this grant to support his ongoing research into the spread and development of monumental stone sculpture in Central and Caribbean Nicaragua
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'From Prehistory to Ethnography in the Circum-Caribbean and Amazonia'
The ‘Leiden in the Caribbean’ conference will take place from March 30th till April 1st 2010. The conference, entitled ‘From Prehistory to Ethnography in the Circum-Caribbean and Amazonia’, is proudly presented by Prof. dr. Corinne Hofman and the Caribbean Research Group (Faculty of Archaeology).
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Visiting PhD student Sonia Duin
By invitation of Prof. dr. Corinne Hofman, Sonia Duin, curator of the exhibition “Voicing Indigenous ARTifacts: Amazonian Featherwork” at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville – Florida, USA, is a visiting PhD student at Leiden University until July 2010.
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Communicating Communities
Antillean and Aruban Heritage
Houses for the Living and the Dead
Mobility and Exchange
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