Vacancy: educational- and research staff member DigiDogon project

The African Studies Centre Leiden is looking, for the ‘digitalisation of African cultural heritage’ research project, for an Educational- and Research staff member (1.0 FTE). The project in question, DigiDogon, is part of the European Joint Program for Digitalisation of Cultural Heritage (JPICH), and aims at recording, digitalizing and preserving a vital part of the cultural heritage of the Dogon in Mali, in particular a song cycle inside the traditional Dogon funeral. The aim of the project is first to widen the empirical knowledge on the prophetic song cycle and to further analyse and contextualise the performances. Apply no later than 9 April. 

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