by Peter Speetjens | 09/05/2024 | Brazil, South America
A professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Roosevelt has been dubbed the “matriarch” of archaeology in the Amazon Basin. In a career spanning some 40 years, she helped accomplish a radical shift in the way we perceive past and present in the...
by Peter Speetjens | 09/05/2024 | Brazil
Streets lie deserted. Gardens have overgrown homes. Doors and windows are bricked up. The Bebedouro neighborhood in Maceió, in Brazil’s northeastern coastal state of Alagoas, is a shadow of its former self. And soon not even that. Every building there is numbered. As...
by Peter Speetjens | 09/05/2024 | Middle East
Een oud stuk, opnieuw actueel. De strijd om het Midden-Oosten woedt sinds 11 september 2001 in toenemende mate aan Amerikaanse universiteiten. Pro-Israëlische groeperingen zijn er uitermate actief. Van hen komen de campagnes om andersdenkende als Norman Finkelstein...
