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Jan Broekhuijse
Johan Theodorus (Jan) Broekhuijse (Haarzuilens, the Netherlands, 22 December 1929 – Nieuwkoop, the Netherlands, 27 September 2020) was a Dutch anthropologist, Ethnography, ethnographer, civil servant and photographer. Career Broekhuijse, the son of a farmer from Haarzuilens in the center of the Netherlands, studied Cultural Anthropology, Non-Western Sociology at Utrecht University where he graduated Latin honors, cum laude in 1958. In January 1959 he left for Dutch New Guinea to become a civil servant of the Dutch government there. Broekhuijse was researching the living conditions of the urbanized Papuans in Jayapura, Hollandia, when he was transferred that same year to post Wamena in the eastern highlands, where the Dutch government still lacked a firm foothold. As a staff member of the ''Kantoor Bevolkingszaken'' (Population Affairs Office), a government office promoting anthropological, linguistic and demographic research among the Papuans, he researched the culture of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haarzuilens
Haarzuilens is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Utrecht, and lies about 12 km west from the city centre of Utrecht. It was a separate municipality until 1954, when it was joined to the municipality of Vleuten. In 2018, the village of Haarzuilens has about 500 inhabitants. Pronounced “''Harzollens''” by the local Dutch inhabitants, the village was built around the turn of the 19th century after its predecessor and the local castle De Haar had been destroyed in a devastating fire. The trees surrounding the castle are said to have originated in a forest on the other side of Utrecht. Local lore has it that several houses in Utrecht were demolished in order to move the trees to their new location and to give the castle's landlord his forest without the decades of delay usually required to grow new trees. Nevertheless, the landlord allegedly went on a five-year honeymoon trip before the trees had been replanted. It is famous for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
