Jan Broekhuijse
{{Short description|Dutch anthropologist and ethnographer (1929–2020)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Johan Theodorus (Jan) Broekhuijse
| image = File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Portret van de heer J.T. Broekhuijse naast het dorpshoofd van Damesma met op de achtergrond de notabelen TMnr 20010391 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Jan Broekhuijse while visiting the village chief of Damesma, Centre-Nord, Burkina Faso, 1974
| birth_name = Johan Theodorus (Jan) Broekhuijse
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|12|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = Haarzuilens
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|9|27|1929|12|22|df=y}}
| death_place = Nieuwkoop
| education =
| occupation = Anthropologist
}}
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De heer J.T. Broekhuijse bestijgt onder veel belangstelling een dromedaris TMnr 20010615.jpg is helping Jan Broekhuijse to mount it in public, Burkina Faso 1970.]]
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Een Fulani jongen schenkt water voor zijn geiten in een houten trog TMnr 20010681.jpg boy is pouring water for his goats in a wooden trough, Burkina Faso 1974.]]
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Een handgeschilderde doek van de Senufo TMnr 20012853.jpg, Burkina Faso? 1960–1970.]]
Johan Theodorus (Jan) Broekhuijse (22 December 1929 in Haarzuilens, the Netherlands – 27 September 2020 in Nieuwkoop, the Netherlands) was a Dutch anthropologist, ethnographer, civil servant and photographer.{{cite web |url=https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/pi900 |title='Dr. J.T. (Johan Theodorus) Broekhuijse'' |last= |first= |date= |website= |language=Dutch |publisher=Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen |access-date=22 April 2022 |quote=}}{{cite book |last1=van Duuren |first1=David |last2=Vink |first2=Steven |date=2011 |title=Oceania at the Tropenmuseum |trans-title=Essays over de geschiedenis en cultuur van Oceanië (met nadruk op Nieuw-Guinea), waarbij voorwerpen en collecties uit het Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam worden uitgelicht |url= |url-status= |url-access= |pages=152–153 |format= |language=English |location= Amsterdam |publisher=KIT Publishers |isbn=9789068327526 |archive-url= |archive-date= |via= |quote=}}
Career
Broekhuijse, the son of a farmer from Haarzuilens in the center of the Netherlands, studied Non-Western Sociology at Utrecht University where he graduated cum laude in 1958. In January 1959 he left for Dutch New Guinea to become a civil servant of the Dutch government there. Broekhuijse was researching the living conditions of the urbanized Papuans in Hollandia, when he was transferred that same year to post Wamena in the eastern highlands, where the Dutch government still lacked a firm foothold. As a staff member of the Kantoor Bevolkingszaken (Population Affairs Office), a government office promoting anthropological, linguistic and demographic research among the Papuans, he researched the culture of the Dani people in the Baliem Valley, a warlike mountain tribe that had not yet been brought under Dutch control. In those years, Broekhuijse was also an advisor and participant of the American Harvard-Peabody Expedition (1961–1965) to the Dani, led by the cinematographer and anthropologist Robert Gardner. The expedition resulted in Gardner's prize winning documentary film Dead birds (1963), on the warfare of the Dani people. However, expedition member and sound engineer Michael C. Rockefeller, son of the politician Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared without a trace in November 1961.
After returning to the Netherlands in 1964, Broekhuijse served for several years as a civil servant at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs while he prepared his Dutch PhD thesis for his doctorate in 1967 with professor Henri Théodore Fischer (1901–1976) at Utrecht University. The same year he joined the Anthropology Department of the Royal Tropical Institute (Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, KIT) in Amsterdam as a scientific officer, with Jan van Baal (1909–1992), Dutch anthropologist and former governor of New Guinea, at the helm since 1959. Until his retirement in 1994 Broekhuijse was affiliated with KIT, where he mainly conducted research in Africa for development projects. In the early 1970s he joined a acquisition tour in Burkina Faso for the Tropenmuseum (Museum of the Tropics), resulting in hundreds of ethnographic photographs.
Broekhuijse later donated his extensive collection of ethnographic objects from the Dani and the Lani people of Western New Guinea to the Tropenmuseum at Amsterdam and passed away in 2020 at the age of 90.Family message NRC Handelsblad, 3 October 2020.
Gallery: Samo culture of Burkina Faso, 1970–1971
Photographs by Jan Broekhuijse:
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Een genezer behandelt een vrouw via de techniek van het koppen zetten TMnr 20010388.jpg|A local healer is treating a woman with cupping therapy in front of a loamstone wall.
ASC Leiden - J. Th. Broekhuijse Collection - 01 - 114 - A magical Samo Kakarè for a prosperous hunt - Burkina Faso, 1970-1971.jpg|Kakare, a magic object to secure a prosperous hunt.
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Een man bezig aan het vlechtwerk voor een nieuwe voorraadschuur TMnr 20010632.jpg|A man is preparing the wickerwork for a new storage shed.
ASC Leiden - J. Th. Broekhuijse Collection - 01 - 050 - A man plays a war horn in front of an adobe wall - Burkina Faso, 1970-1971.jpg|A man is sounding the warhorn.
ASC Leiden - J. Th. Broekhuijse Collection - 01 - 112 - Struggling little boys on sand in front of a crowd - Burkina Faso, 1970-1971.jpg|Two youngsters get ready for a wrestling match accompanied by drummers.
ASC Leiden - J. Th. Broekhuijse Collection - 01 - 048 - A man-woman in an orange antelope mask with two horns and a special suit - Burkina Faso, prob. 1970-1971.jpg|A dancing man-woman in an orange antelope mask with two horns.
ASC Leiden - J. Th. Broekhuijse Collection - 01 - 011 - A shepherd feeds something white (salt?) to goats and zebus - Burkina Faso, 1970-1971.jpg|A shepherd feeds goats and a zebus.
Publications
His publications include:{{Cite web |url=https://search.worldcat.org/nl/search?q=au=%22Broekhuyse%2C%20J.Th%22 |access-date=5 October 2024 |website=Worldcat.org |publisher=OCLC |title=Broekhuijse, J.Th.}}{{WorldCat|id=lccn-n93017781|name=Broekhuyse, J.Th (Johan Theodorus) 1929–}}
- {{Cite book |first1=Johan Theodorus |last1=Broekhuijse |title=De Papoea migrant in Hollandia : (urbanisation of Hollandia) |location=Amsterdam |publisher=Afdeling Culturele en Physische Anthropologie van het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen |date=c. 1960 |oclc=64176373 |language=Dutch}} 158 pages.
- {{Cite book |first1=Johan Theodorus |last1=Broekhuijse |title=De Wiligiman-Dani: een cultureel-anthropologische studie over religie en oorlogvoering in de Baliem-vallei |location=Tilburg |date=1967 |publisher=Gianotten |oclc=4106712 |language=Dutch}} Dutch PhD Dissertation Utrecht University, 299 pages.
- {{Cite book |first1=Jan |last1=Broekhuijse |first2=Marin |last2=Terrible |first3=Edgar |last3=Bafo |title=Désertification et auto-suffisance alimentaire : une vue de la base |location=Oegstgeest |publisher=Cebemo |date=1985 |oclc=65926223 |language=fr}} On Burkina Faso, 260 pages.
- {{Cite book |first1=J. Th. |last1=Broekhuijse |first2=Alioune |last2=Sall |title=The organization of rural society in the Sahel |date=1989 |publisher=Royal Tropical Institute |location=Amsterdam |series=Bulletin (Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen), 314a |isbn=9789068328035 |oclc=21372499}} 44 pages.
- {{Cite book |first1=J. Th. |last1=Broekhuijse |first2=Alioune |last2=Sall |title=L'organisation du monde rural Sahélien |publisher=Institut Royal des Tropiques, Programme de Développement Rural |location=Amsterdam |date=1989 |series=Bulletin ..., 314 |isbn=9789068320251 |oclc=906572193 |language=fr}} 43 pages.
- {{Cite book |first1=J. Th. |last1=Broekhuijse |chapter=De Harvard-Peabody-expeditie in de Baliemvallei |editor-first1=J. W. |editor-last1=Schoorl |title=Besturen in Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea, 1945-1962 : ontwikkelingswerk in een periode van politieke onrust |location=Leiden |publisher=KITLV Uitgeverij |date=1996 |pages=128–148 |language=Dutch |isbn=9789067180931 |oclc=905442840}} Reports by 17 former civil servants on their work in Dutch New Guinea, 658 pages.
- {{Cite book |first1=J. Th. |last1=Broekhuijse |title=Monografie van de Mossi: noordelijk plateau – Sanmatenga, Burkina Faso |location=Amsterdam |publisher=Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen |date=1998 |isbn=9789068321197 |oclc=68035342 |language=Dutch}} 411 pages.
- {{Cite book |first1=J. Th. |last1=Broekhuijse |title=Memorie van overgave : een wijsgerig-anthropologisch onderzoek naar de mentale structuren die het menselijk leven aansturen en ordenen in religie en cultuur |publisher=Uitgeverij Bert Post |location=Noorden |date=2009 |isbn=9789070376710 |oclc=495688795 |language=Dutch}} 384 pages.
- {{Cite book |first1=J. Th. |last1=Broekhuijse |title=De Harvard-Peabody Expeditie. Naar de Dani van de Baliem-vallei : ethnografische en autobiografische notities, exploratieressort oostelijk bergland, Nieuw-Guinea |publisher=Self-published |date=2020 |isbn=9781616272654 |oclc=1182559673 |language=Dutch}} 458 pages.
Archives
- {{cite web |url=https://collectionguides.universiteitleiden.nl/resources/ubl309 |title=Johan Theodorus Broekhuijse Archive (KITLV) |last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher=Leiden University |access-date=22 April 2022 |quote=}}. On Broekhuijse's work as a civil servant in Hollandia, the Baliem valley and the Schouten Islands, 1937–1966.
- {{cite web |url=https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/1887379?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=3f25f1b2646185be4447&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=26&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=1 |title=Collection guide Johan Theodorus Broekhuijse Archive (KITLV) (ubl309) |last= |first= |date= |website=digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2022 |quote=}}
- {{cite web |url=https://collectie.wereldculturen.nl/#/query/2d4ab91e-3b42-4e2a-a436-834092eee8ec |title=Broekhuijse J.T. (Johan Theodorus) Dr. |last= |first= |date= |website=collectie.wereldculturen.nl |publisher=Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen |access-date=22 April 2022 |quote=}} Photographic collection of Broekhuijse kept at this museum.
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