User:KARL RAN

My Name
Hi, My name is Karl Bas Sander Ran.

My Aim
Help guide Dutch language information and data from studies and publications in the areas of history, sociology and cultural anthropology into the forum of English Wikipedia.

Why?
In my humble opinion Wikipedia is the greatest boundary breaking knowledge sharing centre ever! Just happy to put my 2 cents in...

--KARL RAN (talk) 13:31, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Dutch Indonesian
I am often asked why I choose these Dutch/Indonesian topics to write about. It is very recent that over the past decade, the concept of 'mutual heritage' has gained wider currency. A concept particularly used to refer to the material remnants of colonial encounters and exploits centuries ago, including archives, objects of art, ship wrecks, colonial architecture and interventions by colonising powers in the landscapes of their colonies and vice versa the influence on the coloniser, and increasingly also with regard to both the tangible and intangible hybrid eurasian elements of this heritage.

Mutual Heritage
Virtually by definition, the 'mutuality' emphasized by the concept provokes debate about the nature of colonialism as well as the contemporary drive to preserve its legacies and make these available to a wider public (via wikipedia for instance). After all, just as colonialism is not necessarily best described with the help of the cosy buzzword 'encounter', the supposed reciprocity in the preservation of its legacies need not necessarily serve all parties involved to the same extent. With this caveat in mind, there is every reason to welcome the rising interest in mutual heritage and move beyond the simplistic view of colonialism as "predatory institutions encroaching only through military aggression on the territory and autonomy of helpless but freedom-loving stateless peoples".

Stranger King
The most interesting concept in reviewing mutual heritage may be The Stranger King. See author Marshall Sahlins: THE STRANGER-KING OR, ELEMENTARY FORMS OF THE POLITICS OF LIFE. --KARL RAN (talk) 14:51, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

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UPDATES
In my spare time working on several translations of Dutch academic material to English. ''In my dayjob time doing similar things for Anglo Dutch firm... But getting paid for it ; )'' --KARL RAN (talk) 16:48, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
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''Recently returned from an overseas secondment and eager to continue contributing. : )'' --KARL RAN (talk) 19:11, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * UPDATE II

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Places I enjoy traveling to...
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My most favourite place in the world:


Menado in the Minahasa. - -

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