2017/3 Summaries

Fantastical Stories in Plural: or, The Reach of Giants Historical narrative research is increasingly facilitated by internet sources, especially in the Netherlands where a service like Delpher (a combination of “delver” = miner, and “Delphi” = the oracle) provides access to millions of pages from historical newspapers, journals and books; the latter also includes the dbnl (digital library for Dutch …

2017/2 Summaries

“The White Wrap Speaks For Itself” Dynamics and Prescriptive Order in the Traditional Dress of Staphorst, c. 1950-2017 It is not for the first time that the people of the village of Staphorst in The Netherlands make out the subject of an article in Volkskunde. In 2017 a substantial but slowly diminishing number of women still wears the lo¬cal traditional …

2017/1 Summaries

Between taboo and tolerance 30 years of AIDS commemoration in the Netherlands The article deals with the commemoration of AIDS during the last three decades in the Netherlands. It focuses on AIDS Memorial Quilts and the rituals related to them. The quilts were made to fight intolerance against AIDS and homosexuality and to shape a commemoration community. The successful control …