Sjoerd Hofstra
Sjoerd Hofstra | |
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Born | Sjoerd Hofstra 21 January 1897 |
Died | 14 April 1983 | (aged 86)
Education | Ph.D., University of Amsterdam (1933) |
Occupation | Anthropologist |
Sjoerd Hofstra (
Early life and journalism
Hofstra was born in
Study and work
With the assistance of a benefactor, Hofstra studied
Hofstra became the first Dutch sociologist to conduct fieldwork in Africa when he traveled to Sierra Leone. In two visits from 1934 to 1936 he conducted ethnographic field work among the
Between 1938 and 1949 Hofstra held the position of director of the
Hofstra was one of the founding figures of the
Animal welfare
Hofstra was a
Later life and death
Retiring from academia in 1968, Hofstra spent the final years of his life drawing attention to issues with factory farming. He served on the Study Committee for Intensive Livestock Farming, a group established by the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals until his death. Hofstra died 14 April 1983 in Thun, Switzerland.
Archive
Hofstra's scientific legacy (fieldwork notes and other notes) is kept between the African Studies Centre Leiden[5] in Leiden and the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam.[6] His time in Sierra Leone is documented through his correspondence collected in the volume Among the Mende in Sierra Leone: the letters from Sjoerd Hofstra (1934-36),[1] assembled by his daughter and professor of social and cultural history at the University of Amsterdam, Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra.
Publications
His publications[7] include:
- (pseudonym Johannes Hoving): Droom en daad. Enkele proza-zangen (poetry in Dutch, Dream and deed. Some prose songs). Amersfoort, S.D. Veen, 1919
- Differenzierungserscheinungen in einigen afrikanischen Gruppen. Ein Beitrag zur Frage der primitiven Individualität (in German, Differentiation phenomena in some African groups. A contribution to the question of primitive individuality). Dissertation GU Amsterdam, 1933.
- The Social Aspects of Knowledge and Science. Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema, 1937
- The Belief Among the Mendi in Non-Ancestral Spirits, and Its Relation to a Case of Parricide. Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie 40 (5–6): 175–183, 1942
- De houding van den mensch tegenover de natuur (in Dutch, Man's attitude to nature). Arnhem, Van Loghum Slaterus, 1945.
- African Ethnology. Problems, Place and Meaning. Leiden, Brill, 1947
- Over universiteit, Marcuse en rationaliteit (in Dutch, On University, Marcuse and Rationality). Farewell speech GU Amsterdam. Leiden, Brill, 1969
- Enkele culturele en sociale Aspecten van een damverbinding met Ameland (in Dutch, Some Cultural and Social Aspects of a Dam Connection with Ameland). Mededelingen der Akademie van Wetenschappen, afd. Letterkunde. Nieuwe Reeks, XXXIII, nr. 3 (Amsterdam [etc.] 1970). Amsterdam Noord-Hollandse Uitg. Mij., 1970
References
- ^ hdl:1887/24890. Retrieved 3 March 2022 – via scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl.
- ^ a b c Noordegraaf, H. (November 12, 2013). "Hofstra, Sjoerd (1898-1983)". resources.huygens.knaw.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ^ a b de Vries, Geert. "Portretten ereleden Sjoerd Hofstra". www.nsv-sociologie.nl (in Dutch). Nederlandse Sociologische Vereniging. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ^ "Sjoerd Hofstra". dwc.knaw.nl. Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Centrum. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ^ "Archival Collection Sjoerd Hofstra". www.ascleiden.nl. African Studies Centre Leiden. 8 February 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ^ "Hofstra, S. (Sjoerd), 1898-1983". archives.uba.uva.nl (in Dutch). Allard Pierson - The Collections of the University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ^ Sjoerd Hofstra in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
External links
- Media related to Sjoerd Hofstra at Wikimedia Commons