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CV: Jesper Kurt-Nielsen

Historian and is working for the National Museum of Denmark, Research an exhibitions, Ethnographical Collections in Ghana as a project consultant.
Has a background as an officer in the territorial army of Denmark and has formerly worked as a consultant to the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He is studying and documenting Danish presence in Dutch East India and on Nias.

He has also documented the collecting of ethnographical objects on Nias for the Danish National Museum in 1925-27. And he has photographed in the villages in South Nias in an effort to document changes since 1927.

He has publicised the following articles on Nias:

2005 Moderator, developer and designer of the homepage: http://nias.natmus.dk   in cooperation  within the ASEMUS framework and the Museum National, Indonesia, Asian Civilisations Museum Singapore, National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden and the Royal Tropical Museum in Amsterdam.
 

2004

Et Sværd med Tigertænder:  Article in danish concerning a sword from Nias collected by the Danish botanist Oluf Hagerup in 1917. nr.103. Nyt, Magazine for the National Museum of Denmark
 

2003

Ephemeral Isle:  Article and photographs, Tradition and tourism vie for the future of Nias. ICON Magazine. World Monuments Fund, New York, summer edition.
 

2003

Manden Der Ikke Ville Være Høflig: Article concerning the persons behind the collecting of objects and photographs on Nias in 1925-27. Homepage on Nias, National Museum Denmark
 
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