Arie De Ruijter
Biographic Data
| ID | 110748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arie De Ruijter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arie |
| FAMILY NAME | De Ruijter |
| SIGNATURE | DE RUIJTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5132-9565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
"Please, you go first!" preferences for a Covid-19 vaccine among adults in the Netherlands
The Sustainability of Cultural Diversity
This engaging book addresses the question of how diverse communities, whether in a nation, city or organization, can live together and prosper whilst retaining and enjoying their cultural differences. This is a particularly pertinent issue in the context of the modern world where mass migration and immigration are pervasive global phenomena.
Sustainability of Cultural Diversity
Confronting or Complementing? A Case Study on NGO–State Relations from Kerala, India
NGOs have, of late, found some of their traditional domains, such as provision of micro-credit and participatory development, coinciding with or being taken away by the state. How do they position themselves and retain relevance vis-a-vis the state in the changed scenario? Tracing the trajectory of interventions of a local NGO in Kerala, India, this article shows that NGOs exhibit ‘multiple identities’—selective collaboration, gap-filling and pos…
Resilient and Resourceful
In the backdrop of the popularization of social capital, it has become fashionable in development circles to highlight the resilience of the poor in the midst of stresses and shocks as well as their resourcefulness. Expressing scepticism, this article argues that social capital is a 'conditional' resource for the poor, availability of which is dependent on the presence of a 'critical mass' of other resources. The State plays a pivotal role in cre…
Multidimensional Poverty and Identification of Poor Households
In this paper we compare and contrast the view on poverty of lay people, who are affected by the policies, with that of academics and policy‐makers. Drawing from fieldwork in a village in Kerala, India, and applying the ‘participatory numbers’ approach, we devise a ‘local method’ to identify poor households, based on the villagers’ poverty criteria. The local method is then compared with the official methods used by the national and the state gov…
Afghan refugees and their general practitioners in The Netherlands
In-depth interviews with Afghan refugees living in The Netherlands about their experience of healthcare, have led to a series of narratives. This article focuses on the relationship between the refugee-patients and their general practitioners (GPs) from the participants' point of view. It was possible to distinguish four different types of narrative, by analysing the individual interviews into critical episodes. Building trust was identified as t…
Multiculturalism and Social Integration in Europe
In an era of increasing cultural diversity within nation-sates and the deterritorialization of cultures and peoples, the notion of a national citizenship signifying a single, homogenized culture shared by all citizens has become obsolete. A possible alternative is presented in which an uncoupling of nationality and culture would lead to open and equal communication between citizens and the development of transmigrants’ identities as members of a …
Cultural Pluralism and Citizenship
Several scientists and politicians state that society will disintegrate if its members are not strung more or less like beads on a string of common motives, cognitions and values. They uphold the view that a plural society can only function adequately if there is a consensus about fundamental common standards and values between the various groups in society. In this article this 'integrative' view is rejected. Instead the coordinative view is pre…
Exotic Readings of Cultural Texts [and Comments and Reply]
Psychological versus structural validity of knowledge; The case of ethnoscience
119
The Future of Structuralism
The Thick and the Thin
The promise of interpretive theory has led Clifford Geertz to call for a new and different anthropology as well as a broad "refiguration of social thought" in the social sciences and humanities. This essay examines Geertz's theoretical program, including its application to the specific cases of Balinese trance and the Balinese theatre state. Special attention is given to Geertz's claim that interpretive theory is superior to conventional social s…
Collective Representation in American Anthropological Conversations
The paper is an investigation into the conversational processes which lead to a peculiarly American appropriation of the holistic intuition into the nature of culture. The individualism of American culture is well known. The fact that one can find in the United States many statements that go beyond individualism (e.g., in the Pragmatist tradition) is either ignored or used as an argument for the impossibility of speaking of an "American" culture.…
Ambiguities in Lévi-Strauss's distinction between mechanical and statistical models
The distinction between mechanical and statistical models was introduced by Lévi-Strauss in his paper on 'Social Structure', delivered at the Wenner Gren Foundation International Symposium on Anthropology in New York in 1952.He himself thinks that this differentiation is important for two reasons.First of all, it enables one to map out similarities and differences between disciplines, contributing to a better understanding of various issues.This …
The Thick and the Thin
The promise of interpretive theory has led Clifford Geertz to call for a new and different anthropology as well as a broad "refiguration of social thought" in the social sciences and humanities. This essay examines Geertz's theoretical program, including its application to the specific cases of Balinese trance and the Balinese theatre state. Special attention is given to Geertz's claim that interpretive theory is superior to conventional social s…
Exotic Readings of Cultural Texts [and Comments and Reply]
Afghan refugees and their general practitioners in The Netherlands
In-depth interviews with Afghan refugees living in The Netherlands about their experience of healthcare, have led to a series of narratives. This article focuses on the relationship between the refugee-patients and their general practitioners (GPs) from the participants' point of view. It was possible to distinguish four different types of narrative, by analysing the individual interviews into critical episodes. Building trust was identified as t…
Collective Representation in American Anthropological Conversations
The paper is an investigation into the conversational processes which lead to a peculiarly American appropriation of the holistic intuition into the nature of culture. The individualism of American culture is well known. The fact that one can find in the United States many statements that go beyond individualism (e.g., in the Pragmatist tradition) is either ignored or used as an argument for the impossibility of speaking of an "American" culture.…
Multiculturalism and Social Integration in Europe
In an era of increasing cultural diversity within nation-sates and the deterritorialization of cultures and peoples, the notion of a national citizenship signifying a single, homogenized culture shared by all citizens has become obsolete. A possible alternative is presented in which an uncoupling of nationality and culture would lead to open and equal communication between citizens and the development of transmigrants’ identities as members of a …
"Please, you go first!" preferences for a Covid-19 vaccine among adults in the Netherlands
Confronting or Complementing? A Case Study on NGO–State Relations from Kerala, India
NGOs have, of late, found some of their traditional domains, such as provision of micro-credit and participatory development, coinciding with or being taken away by the state. How do they position themselves and retain relevance vis-a-vis the state in the changed scenario? Tracing the trajectory of interventions of a local NGO in Kerala, India, this article shows that NGOs exhibit ‘multiple identities’—selective collaboration, gap-filling and pos…
Resilient and Resourceful
In the backdrop of the popularization of social capital, it has become fashionable in development circles to highlight the resilience of the poor in the midst of stresses and shocks as well as their resourcefulness. Expressing scepticism, this article argues that social capital is a 'conditional' resource for the poor, availability of which is dependent on the presence of a 'critical mass' of other resources. The State plays a pivotal role in cre…
Multidimensional Poverty and Identification of Poor Households
In this paper we compare and contrast the view on poverty of lay people, who are affected by the policies, with that of academics and policy‐makers. Drawing from fieldwork in a village in Kerala, India, and applying the ‘participatory numbers’ approach, we devise a ‘local method’ to identify poor households, based on the villagers’ poverty criteria. The local method is then compared with the official methods used by the national and the state gov…
Ambiguities in Lévi-Strauss's distinction between mechanical and statistical models
The distinction between mechanical and statistical models was introduced by Lévi-Strauss in his paper on 'Social Structure', delivered at the Wenner Gren Foundation International Symposium on Anthropology in New York in 1952.He himself thinks that this differentiation is important for two reasons.First of all, it enables one to map out similarities and differences between disciplines, contributing to a better understanding of various issues.This …
Ambiguities in Lévi-Strauss's distinction between mechanical and statistical models
The distinction between mechanical and statistical models was introduced by Lévi-Strauss in his paper on 'Social Structure', delivered at the Wenner Gren Foundation International Symposium on Anthropology in New York in 1952.He himself thinks that this differentiation is important for two reasons.First of all, it enables one to map out similarities and differences between disciplines, contributing to a better understanding of various issues.This …
The Thick and the Thin
The promise of interpretive theory has led Clifford Geertz to call for a new and different anthropology as well as a broad "refiguration of social thought" in the social sciences and humanities. This essay examines Geertz's theoretical program, including its application to the specific cases of Balinese trance and the Balinese theatre state. Special attention is given to Geertz's claim that interpretive theory is superior to conventional social s…
Collective Representation in American Anthropological Conversations
The paper is an investigation into the conversational processes which lead to a peculiarly American appropriation of the holistic intuition into the nature of culture. The individualism of American culture is well known. The fact that one can find in the United States many statements that go beyond individualism (e.g., in the Pragmatist tradition) is either ignored or used as an argument for the impossibility of speaking of an "American" culture.…
The Future of Structuralism
Exotic Readings of Cultural Texts [and Comments and Reply]
Psychological versus structural validity of knowledge; The case of ethnoscience
119
Cultural Pluralism and Citizenship
Several scientists and politicians state that society will disintegrate if its members are not strung more or less like beads on a string of common motives, cognitions and values. They uphold the view that a plural society can only function adequately if there is a consensus about fundamental common standards and values between the various groups in society. In this article this 'integrative' view is rejected. Instead the coordinative view is pre…
Multiculturalism and Social Integration in Europe
In an era of increasing cultural diversity within nation-sates and the deterritorialization of cultures and peoples, the notion of a national citizenship signifying a single, homogenized culture shared by all citizens has become obsolete. A possible alternative is presented in which an uncoupling of nationality and culture would lead to open and equal communication between citizens and the development of transmigrants’ identities as members of a …
Afghan refugees and their general practitioners in The Netherlands
In-depth interviews with Afghan refugees living in The Netherlands about their experience of healthcare, have led to a series of narratives. This article focuses on the relationship between the refugee-patients and their general practitioners (GPs) from the participants' point of view. It was possible to distinguish four different types of narrative, by analysing the individual interviews into critical episodes. Building trust was identified as t…
Multidimensional Poverty and Identification of Poor Households
In this paper we compare and contrast the view on poverty of lay people, who are affected by the policies, with that of academics and policy‐makers. Drawing from fieldwork in a village in Kerala, India, and applying the ‘participatory numbers’ approach, we devise a ‘local method’ to identify poor households, based on the villagers’ poverty criteria. The local method is then compared with the official methods used by the national and the state gov…
The Sustainability of Cultural Diversity
This engaging book addresses the question of how diverse communities, whether in a nation, city or organization, can live together and prosper whilst retaining and enjoying their cultural differences. This is a particularly pertinent issue in the context of the modern world where mass migration and immigration are pervasive global phenomena.
Sustainability of Cultural Diversity
Confronting or Complementing? A Case Study on NGO–State Relations from Kerala, India
NGOs have, of late, found some of their traditional domains, such as provision of micro-credit and participatory development, coinciding with or being taken away by the state. How do they position themselves and retain relevance vis-a-vis the state in the changed scenario? Tracing the trajectory of interventions of a local NGO in Kerala, India, this article shows that NGOs exhibit ‘multiple identities’—selective collaboration, gap-filling and pos…
Resilient and Resourceful
In the backdrop of the popularization of social capital, it has become fashionable in development circles to highlight the resilience of the poor in the midst of stresses and shocks as well as their resourcefulness. Expressing scepticism, this article argues that social capital is a 'conditional' resource for the poor, availability of which is dependent on the presence of a 'critical mass' of other resources. The State plays a pivotal role in cre…
"Please, you go first!" preferences for a Covid-19 vaccine among adults in the Netherlands
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