Hagesteijn, Renée R.

Renée R. Hagesteijn studied cultural anthropology and obtained a PhD at Leiden University in 1985. Her main publications in this field are: (edited with Martin A. van Bakel and Pieter van de Velde), Private Politics: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to ‘Big-Man’ Systems, Leiden: Brill, 1984; Circles of Kings: Political Dynamics in Early Continental Southeast Asia, Haarlem: Foris Publications, 1989; (edited with Martin A. van Bakel, and Pieter van de Velde), Pivot Politics. Changing Cultural Identities in Early State Formation Processes, Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis; 1994. She can be contacted at: kessel@nwo.nl