Theo Baart
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Ons Erf

Identity, heritage and cultural dynamics

2014 | "We are growing towards a world culture. Multi-culture has appeared everywhere and there is also opposition to it. People often start to emphasize their old own culture. What is the intertwining between indigenous and cosmopolitanism? What do we see in the past as typical of one's own? 

[...] Ons Erf is a book about the meaning of the national feeling, the future of the multicultural society and the role of religion. It is richly illustrated with photos by Theo Baart. "

quote from the publisher Bezige Bij

Ons Erf received the E. du Perron prize for text and photography in 2015.

Text Warna Oosterbaan

Photography Theo Baart

Design  Tessa van der Waals

Publisher  Bezige Bij


170 * 240 mm | 248 pages

text in Dutch


Made possible by financial support from The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

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