Hein Vanhee (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium)

Submitted: Mon, 29 December 2003


Hein Vanhee
Royal Museum for Central Africa
Department of Cultural Anthropology
Section of Ethnography
Leuvensesteenweg 13
B-3080
Tervuren
Belgium

phone:   +32-2-7695 680
fax:     +32-2-7695 642
e-mail:  hein.vanhee@africamuseum.be
 or heinvanhee@skynet.be


Web site: http://www.africamuseum.be



Research interests:

Geographical: Lower Congo (ex-Zaïre), Cabinda enclave, 
Saint-Domingue/Haiti, Brazil

Historical: eighteenth and nineteenth-century slave trade from Central
Africa, early (Belgian) colonialism in Lower Congo, Central African
diaspora in Haiti and Brazil 

Historical anthropology, oral history, material culture studies, colonial
ethnography and collecting.