Eric Venbrux
Biographic Data
| ID | 111380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Venbrux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Venbrux |
| SIGNATURE | VENBRUX E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8817-0092 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cultural styles of knowledge transmission: Essays in honour of Ad Borsboom
How (not) to let go? Exploring the current ritual repertoire around euthanasia in the Netherlands
Euthanasia is often considered an individual choice, yet the process and the status passages are embedded in three dimensions-medico-legal, ritual, and personal-which are intertwined. This paper explores how individuals and their social circles manage and frame these dimensions and passages with ritual behavior. Using interviews and observations, this study explores the current ritual repertoire in the Netherlands surrounding euthanasia trajector…
On Inhabiting Monastic Heritage: Monastery "Nieuw Sion" in the Netherlands as Material Burden and Spiritual Opportunity
For decades, the Catholic monastic tradition has been defined by demographic decline and the closure of monasteries. And yet, new religious groups have emerged that have cultivated their own take on the monastic tradition, while old monasteries have become treasured heritage objects. In recent years, these new religious groups have started to acquire and inhabit old monasteries. It follows that simultaneous re-religionization and heritagization i…
Religion is Not an Epiphenomenon: W.E.H. Stanner, On Aboriginal Religion (1959-1963)
In NTT JTSR’s series on Key Texts, W.E.H. Stanner’s On Aboriginal Religion (1959-1963) cannot be missed. It is a crucial text in the study of religion that merits renewed attention. The text concerns the Murinbata (now: Murrinh-patha) of north Australia. The Murinbata consider life, according to Stanner, “A joyful thing with maggots at the centre.” Stanner’s text on Aboriginal religion forms the main part of his exploration of Aboriginal High Cul…
Memorabilia of Colonial Violence and Death: The Collection of Jean Louis Henri Beijens (1835-1914), a Former Military Officer in the Netherlands East Indies
Nineteenth-century, private collections of ethnographic artefacts have a bad reputation in anthropology. Appearing to comprise 'a haphazard assemblage of junk' (Gathercole 1978:276), anthropologists and others interested in ethnographic objects and collecting have ignored private collections for some time. While Jean Louis Henri Beijens's collection resembles at first glance a haphazard assemblage not worthy of attention, a closer inspection reve…
Introduction: Religion, Health and Wellbeing
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Rules, Norms and Practices – A Comparative Study Exploring Disposal Practices and Facilities in Northern Europe
We identify and analyse practices and management regimes around burial and handling of ashes across eight case study towns within six Northern European countries. We analyse management of cemeteries and crematoria gardens, majority practices and provision for minority communities, including various burial types, cremated remains, the re-use of graves, and costs for interments. Comparative data is drawn from analysis of national and local regulati…
Shamanism, Globalisation and Religion in the Contemporary Art of Said Atabekov and the Kazakh Art Collective Kyzyl Tractor
Central Asia's most famous artist Said Atabekov both interrogates and imagines religiosity in post-Soviet Kazakhstan in his art. He has been doing so as a member of the Kyzyl Tractor (Red Tractor) art collective and in his own art practice. They perform as shamans and explore the nomadic steppe culture of the days of yore. Offering a nuanced and often ironic critique of present-day developments in his art, Atabekov seeks to make his audience thin…
Ritual, Ritualization, and Religion in the Work of Kazakhstani Artist Anvar Musrepov
This article contributes to the study of ritual in art, which is an unconventional setting for ritual studies. It concerns ritual, ritualization, and religion in the oeuvre of the up-and-coming Kazakhstani artist Anvar Musrepov. We discuss the prayer ritual, the process of ritual erasure (by covering in black), consumption rituals, and a cleansing ritual with a drone and ritualization with computer-generated imagery. Musrepov seeks to reimagine K…
Religious Studies: Back to the Future
Are religious people intolerant: An empirical study of the perceptions of committed religious and humanist youth in the Netherlands and Flanders
The central question in this article is: ‘Are committed young Catholics, Protestants, Muslims and humanists in the Netherlands and Flanders intolerant towards other groups?’ To answer this question, we analyse survey data and interviews collected in this research population. We first look at intergroup attitudes, which mainly show a pluralist approach towards the plurality of worldviews. Subsequently, we discuss the levels of religiocentrism and …
The Current Crisis in Dutch Study of Religion and the Role of the NGG: A Short Rejoinder
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
The search for meaning in later life: On the connection between religious narratives and narratives of aging
Older adults’ life stories are often connected with religious stories. In-depth interviews with 26 older Dutch adults indicate three groups of religious narratives (experiential, ontological, and critical narratives) and three master narratives of aging (active aging, decline, and inner growth). The narrative of aging as inner growth, which strives for a balance between opposites, offers a way out of the polarity between active aging and aging as…
Common Worlds and Single Lives: Constituting Knowledge in Pacific Societies
Co-Creating Ritual Spaces and Communities: An Analysis of Municipal Cemetery Tongerseweg, Maastricht, 1812-2020
Cemeteries have been viewed in opposed ways as ritual spaces that either mirror society or present an idealized model of society. In this article, we propose an analysis of cemeteries as ritual spaces, focused on the case study of municipal cemetery Tongerseweg in Maastricht, among the most important monumental cemeteries still in active use in The Netherlands today. Drawing on historical as well as interview material, spatial and ritual studies,…
Worldview commitment and narrative foreclosure among older Dutch adults: Assessing the importance of grand narratives
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Religion and fear of death among older Dutch adults
A qualitative study based on in-depth interviews with 26 older Dutch participants was performed to elucidate the complex relationship between religion and death anxiety. Whereas participants expressed seven types of lived religion (lacking, lost, liminal, loose, learned, lasting, and liquid religion), only participants with loose or lost religion expressed death anxiety. This supports previous research indicating that moderately religious people …
Communicating with the Dead in an Australian Aboriginal Culture: The Tiwi from Melville and Bathurst Islands
Determining the end of life: A qualitative study of religion and euthanasia among older Dutch adults
In Dutch discourses euthanasia has consecutively been viewed as murder, as mercy offered by medical doctors and as a self-chosen right for older people. This seems to reflect decreasing religious authority over death. Therefore, 26 interviews with Dutch adults aged 79–100 were carried out to evaluate the relationship between religion and attitudes towards euthanasia. Qualitative analysis indicates three groups of participants. Participants in the…
Interpretation and timing of death: The development and initial validation of the interpretation of death (IOD) scale and the attitudes toward medical interventions in the timing of death (Amitod) sca…
Decreasing religious authority and increasing medical interventions at the end-of-life emphasize the importance of the interpretation and timing of death. Therefore, the three-dimensional interpretation of death scale (evaluating religious, rational, and personal interpretation of death) and the three-dimensional attitudes toward medical interventions in the timing of death scale (evaluating euthanasia, life prolongation and nonintervention) were…
Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss: Grief and Consolation in Space and Time
Death and the search for meaning: Canonical, utilitarian and expressive thanatological cultural niches
The bafflement, suffering and moral paradox that often surround death fuel the human search for meaning. Whereas traditionally religions provided meaning in the face of death, due to secularisation and rationalisation this search for meaning has increasingly become an individual project. We argue that in this process, people derive meaning from death-related cultural affordances. We define these as the opportunities for perception and action that…
How the Tiwi Construct the Deceased's Postself in Mortuary Ritual
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From Cabbages to Cadavers: Natural Burial Down on the Farm
This chapter explores the processes of death, burial and exhumation on the Western Front. It also explores the complex processes and iconography of remembrance, including the ritual surrounding the exhumation and re-burial of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey. The chapter explores how different artists created images that appeared to revive and resurrect the battle-dead focusing on Stanley Spencer and his fascination with the ideas of rede…
A history of art from the Tiwi Islands: The source community in an evolving museumscape
Introduction ‘Morning tea with Tiwi Ladies’ is one of the attractions for tourists visiting Bathurst and Melville Islands in northern Australia. Indigenous graveyards and the production of arts and crafts are part and parcel of the itinerary. The islands have a history of one hundred years as a ‘destination culture’ (Kirshenblatt- Gimblett 1998) for tourists and anthropologists alike. From the early years of the twentieth century onwards museum i…
A Death in the Tiwi Islands: Conflict, Ritual and Social Life in an Australian Aboriginal Community
In touch with the deceased: Animate Objects and Human Ashes
Despite increasing secularization in the Netherlands, beliefs in an afterlife have not disappeared. Instead, new death rituals have emerged, among which is the practice of enclosing human ashes in objects such as paintings, candleholders, jewelry, and tattoos. Because human matter can now be incorporated into paint, glass, metal, and human skin, the dead become part of daily life and the living become carriers of the deceased. As a consequence, t…
Co-Creating Ritual Spaces and Communities: An Analysis of Municipal Cemetery Tongerseweg, Maastricht, 1812-2020
Cemeteries have been viewed in opposed ways as ritual spaces that either mirror society or present an idealized model of society. In this article, we propose an analysis of cemeteries as ritual spaces, focused on the case study of municipal cemetery Tongerseweg in Maastricht, among the most important monumental cemeteries still in active use in The Netherlands today. Drawing on historical as well as interview material, spatial and ritual studies,…
Robert Hertz’s seminal essay and mortuary rites in the Pacific region
This special issue emerged from a session, entitled ‘Spiritual material: Objects and change in mortuary ritual,’ that Pierre Lemonnier and I organized at the conference of the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) in Marseille in June 2005. In this session we explored the link between the spiritual and the material in mortuary ritual in the Pacific region. Inspired by the French anthropologist Robert Hertz (18811915), who in his 1907 essay on sec…
Destroyal of the personal belongings of the deceased: On bone and flesh type of objects: Elaborating Hertz in Australia
Les Aborigènes Tiwi des îles Melville et Bathurst, au nord de l'Australie, sont bien connus dans la littérature ethnographique, et leurs rites mortuaires élaborés ne sont pas ce qui contribue le moins à cette réputation. Dans cet article, je me pencherai sur un aspect de la façon dont les Tiwi traitent la mort qui a reçu peu d'attention jusqu'ici, à savoir la destruction des biens personnels du défunt. Les Tiwi se débarrassent des objets d'une pe…
Shamanism, Globalisation and Religion in the Contemporary Art of Said Atabekov and the Kazakh Art Collective Kyzyl Tractor
Central Asia's most famous artist Said Atabekov both interrogates and imagines religiosity in post-Soviet Kazakhstan in his art. He has been doing so as a member of the Kyzyl Tractor (Red Tractor) art collective and in his own art practice. They perform as shamans and explore the nomadic steppe culture of the days of yore. Offering a nuanced and often ironic critique of present-day developments in his art, Atabekov seeks to make his audience thin…
How the Tiwi Construct the Deceased's Postself in Mortuary Ritual
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Ten Canoes: Ten Canoes Ten Canoes [One hundred and fifty spears, ten canoes, three wives…trouble], a film by Rolf de Heer and the people of Ramingining, 2006; c. 90 mins.Balanda and the Bark Canoes, a…
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Confronting World Art: An Introduction
Caging the Rainbow: Places, Politics and Aborigines in a North Australian Town
A Death-Marriage'in a Swiss Mountain Village
This paper deals with the case of a single girl buried as a bride in a Swiss mountain village. It is a local variant of the death-marriage or Totenhochzeit, a custom that must have been widespread in rural Europe. In the death-marriage the metaphor of death as marriage mitigates the opposition between life and death, because in contrast to death, the parting at marriage is not irreversible (Danforth 1982). Especially unmarried girls are buried as…
A Death in the Tiwi Islands: Conflict, Ritual and Social Life in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Reply to Köpping
Caging the Rainbow: Places, Politics and Aborigines in a North Australian Town
Bad Colonists: The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke
CONTENTS List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Letter writing and colonial selfhood An awfully bad hand at letter writing: Vernon Lee Walker and colonial history The letters of Vernon Lee Walker, 1878-1887 Self-fashioning and savagery: Louis Becke's Pacific letters The letters of Louis Becke, 1880-1882 The apotheosis of savagery: Louis Becke's Pacific tales Epilogue: figures in history Notes Bibliography Index
Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point
Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point. John B. Haviland, with Roger Hart. ashington, DC: Smithsonian Institution ress, 1998. ix + 226 pp., photographs, glossary, notes, bibliography, index
Conceptualizing world art studies: An introduction
This special issue aims to contribute to the conceptualization of World Art Studies. The first two articles offer evaluative views from art history, the third and fourth perspectives from anthropology, the fifth and sixth arguments for including neo-evolutionary and neurological studies in understanding world art as a universal human behavior
Confronting World Art: An Introduction
The social context of death, dying and disposal: 8Th International Conference 12 – 15 September 2007
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Robert Hertz’s seminal essay and mortuary rites in the Pacific region
This special issue emerged from a session, entitled ‘Spiritual material: Objects and change in mortuary ritual,’ that Pierre Lemonnier and I organized at the conference of the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) in Marseille in June 2005. In this session we explored the link between the spiritual and the material in mortuary ritual in the Pacific region. Inspired by the French anthropologist Robert Hertz (18811915), who in his 1907 essay on sec…
Destroyal of the personal belongings of the deceased: On bone and flesh type of objects: Elaborating Hertz in Australia
Les Aborigènes Tiwi des îles Melville et Bathurst, au nord de l'Australie, sont bien connus dans la littérature ethnographique, et leurs rites mortuaires élaborés ne sont pas ce qui contribue le moins à cette réputation. Dans cet article, je me pencherai sur un aspect de la façon dont les Tiwi traitent la mort qui a reçu peu d'attention jusqu'ici, à savoir la destruction des biens personnels du défunt. Les Tiwi se débarrassent des objets d'une pe…
Cultural styles of knowledge transmission: Essays in honour of Ad Borsboom
Anthropologist Ad Borsboom devoted his academic career from 1972 onwards to the transmission of cultural knowledge. Borsboom handed the insights he acquired during many years of fieldwork among Australian Aborigines on to other academics, students, and the general public. This collection of essays by his colleagues, specializing in cultures from across the globe, focuses on knowledge transmission. The contributions deal with local forms of educat…
Ten Canoes: Ten Canoes Ten Canoes [One hundred and fifty spears, ten canoes, three wives…trouble], a film by Rolf de Heer and the people of Ramingining, 2006; c. 90 mins.Balanda and the Bark Canoes, a…
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Dutch Herring: An Environmental History, c. 1600-1860
Dutch Herring: An Environmental History, c. 1600–1860
In the seventeenth century, the Dutch herring fisheries in the North Sea were considered the most sophisticated and demanding fishing operation in the world. This is the first study to assess the North Sea herring and herring fisheries over the span of several centuries. It contributes to the understanding of pre-modern natural resource exploitation and the role of the natural environment in long-term development of the Dutch herring fisheries.
Cultural Styles of Knowledge Transmission: Essays in Honour of Ad Borsboom
Comparative Mythology. A Conference Report (Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology (Iacm), Ravenstein, the Netherlands, August 19–21, 2008)
Anthropos , Seite 561 - 564
Piepke, Joachim G. (Hrsg.): Kultur und Religion in der Begegnung mit dem Fremden
Anthropos , Seite 246 - 246
Driving Europe: Building Europe on Roads in the Twentieth Century (Technology and Europe History) (Volume 3)
Today we can hardly imagine life in Europe without roads and the automobiles that move people and goods around. In fact, the vast majority of movement in Europe takes place on the road. Travelers use the car to explore parts of the continent on their holidays, and goods travel large distances to reach consumers. Indeed, the twentieth century has deservedly been characteried as the century of the car. The situation looked very different around 190…
From soul to postself: Home memorials in the Netherlands
While house shrines seemed to have virtually disappeared from Roman Catholic homes in the Netherlands, a representative national survey conducted in 2005 showed that they had re-emerged in a different form and become a more widespread phenomenon among the Dutch population. Irrespective of religious denomination, or even despite having no religious affiliation at all, about a third of the respondents stated that they had a memorial place in their …
Secondary burial in the Netherlands: Rights, rites and motivations
Secondary burial, though often associated with exotic places, appears to be less rare in the Netherlands than people assume. In this article we discuss contemporary re-interments of 'average' people, seeking to understand why such reburials take place and whether, and how, the events are ritualised. The reburials, we found, do not conform to a standardised practice: they vary considerably, leaving room for the survivors to create their own ritual…
Going Dutch: Individualisation, secularisation and changes in death rites
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Social Life and the Dreamtime: Clues to Creation Myths as Rhetorical Devices in Tiwi Mortuary Ritual
The visual arts of the Tiwi Aborigines from Bathurst and Melville Islands, Australia, have their origin in mortuary rituals that entail a re-enactment of creation myths. In mortuary ritual a script—inherited from the mythological ancestor Purakupali, who introduced death into Tiwi society and had the death rites performed for the first time—has to be followed, but the participants link the conventional ritual events with their own stories and per…
Het hemels lichaam. Miraculeuze relieken uit de verzameling Hamers-IJsebrand
Het hemels lichaam. Miraculeuze relieken uit de verzameling Hamers-IJsebrand." Mortality, 15(1), pp. 103–104
Meaning Making and Death in a Secular Society: A Dutch Survey Study
This article focuses on the relation between death and religion in a secularized society. In the Netherlands, traditional religious membership has declined significantly together with traditional belief systems. This study investigates the relation between the experience of death and religious affiliation (unaffiliated, Catholic, and Protestant) in relation to meaning making. Parts of a nationwide survey study (n = 1212) are analyzed in order to …
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