Reframing Dutch Culture Between Otherness and Authenticity

Dutch society has undergone radical changes in recent years, due to complex political, social and ethnic developments. Reframing Dutch Culture examines issues of nationality, ethnicity, culture and identity in The Netherlands from an ethnological perspective, linking past traditions and notions of identity with more recent transformations. Weaving in a range of fascinating case studies, contributors provide an interdisciplinary analysis of these changes. The developments are related to wider European and global transformation processes, highlighting the contribution of Dutch ethnology to the international debate. This timely collection provides a fascinating and insightful window on modern Dutch society.

1: Introduction; I: Otherness And Identity; 2: Moroccan Dutch Boys and the Authentication of Clothing Styles 1; 3: Celebrating Localism: The Festive Articulation of Texel's Identity; 4: Public Folklore and the Construction of a Regional Identity in Newly Reclaimed Dutch Polders; 5: Appropriating Modernity and Tradition: The Turkish-Dutch and the Imaginary Geography of East and West; II: Performance; 6: Performative Memorials: Arenas of Political Resentment in Dutch Society; 7: Crop Circle Tales: Narrative Testimonies from the Dutch Frontier Science Movement; 8: Commemorating Victims of ‘Senseless Violence': Negotiating Ethnic Inclusion and Exclusion 1; III: Heritage And Authenticity; 9: Transforming Notions of Mercy at Work: The Changing Mission of the Fraters of Tilburg in Secularised Dutch Society; 10: Vernacular Authenticity: Negotiating Mother's Day and Father's Day in the Netherlands; 11: Singing in Dutch Dialects: Language Choice in Music and the Dialect Renaissance; 12: Their Own Heritage: Women Wearing Traditional Costumes in the Village of Marken; IV: Historiography And Bibliography; 13: A History of Dutch Ethnology in 10½ Pages; 14: Bibliographic Information on Dutch Ethnology

Dr Peter Jan Margry, Senior Research Fellow in religious Culture at the Department of Dutch Ethnology of the Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands and Dr Herman Roodenburg, Head of Department of Dutch Ethnology at the Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands and Professor of Cultural History at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium