Mw.drs. N.C. (Natalie) Everts

Function:
  • Research assistant

Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2769
E-Mail: n.c.everts@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Geschiedenis diversen
Office Address: Johan Huizingagebouw
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 268A
 
Curriculum vitae
Natalie Everts is editor to the Shung Ye project Formosan Encounter, a publication of Dutch East India Company sources on Taiwan’s indigenous societies (1623-1667), funded by the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines in Taipei. She is preparing her dissertation on mixed marriages between Akan women and European traders and the position of their Euro-African children in 18th-century Elmina (Ghana).
Research Interests
Cultural encounters, Inter-ethnic relations, Dutch archival sources on pre-colonial non-Western societies. The History of the Dutch East India Company on Taiwan; Dutch sources on Formosa’s indigenous peoples. Social history of pre-colonial West Africa, in particular the Southern Akan; The social world of the coastal enclave Elmina; Dutch West India Company sources on the Gold Coast settlements.
Publications
The Formosan Encounter. Notes on Formosa’s Aboriginal Society: A Selection of Documents from Dutch Archival Sources,III, 1646-1654, ed. L. Blussé, &  N.C. Everts (Taipei: Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, 2006).

Everts, N.C., ‘Indigenous con­cepts of marria­ge in 17th-century Sincan (Hsin-kang): Impressions Gathered from the Letters of the Dutch Ministers Georgius Candidius and Robertus Junius’, in Chuen-rong Yeh (ed.), History, Culture and Ethnicity, Selected Papers from the International Conference on the Formosan Indigenous Peoples (Taipei: Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, 2006), 89-104.

Everts, N.C. & Milde, W., ‘We Thanked God for Submitting Us to Such Sore but Supportable Trials, Hendrick Noorden and His Long Road to Freedom’, in L. Blussé (ed.), Around and About Formosa, Essays in honor of Professor Ts'ao Yung-ho (Taipei: Ts’ao Yung-ho Foundation for Culture and Education, 2003) 243-272.

Everts, N.C., ‘Brought up well according to European standards: Helena van der Burgh and Wilhelmina van Naarssen: two Christian women from Elmina’, in I. van Kessel (ed.), Merchants, Missionaries and Migrants, 300 years of Dutch-Ghanaian Relations (Accra/Amsterdam: Sub-Saharan Publishers/KIT Publishers 2002) 100-109.

Everts, N.C., ‘Als je geen meester hebt, zal een roofdier je verslinden: Inheemse slavernij in de Akan samenleving aan de Goudkust in de achttiende eeuw’, in R. Daalder, A. Kieskamp, &  D.J.Tang (eds.), Slaven en Schepen, Enkele reis, Bestemming onbekend (Leiden/Amsterdam: Primavera Pers/ Stichting Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum 2001) 102-109.

Everts, N.C., ‘Jacob van Lamay van Tayouan: An Indigenous Formosan Who Became an Amsterdam Citizen’, in D. Blundell (ed.), Austronesian Taiwan, Linguistics, History, Ethnology and Prehistory (Berkeley/Taipei: University of California/Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines 2000) 151-156.

Ranjeva-Rabetafika, Y., Baesjou, R., Everts, N.C., ‘Of Paper and Men: A Note on the Archives of the VOC as a Source for the History of Madagascar’,  Itinerario, 24, 1 (2000) 45-57.

De Dagregisters van Kasteel Zeelandia, Taiwan 1629-1662, IV: 1655-1662, ed. J.L. Blussé, N.C. Everts, W. Milde, Ts’ao Yung-ho (Den Haag: RGP, 241, 2000).

The Formosan Encounter. Notes on Formosa’s Aboriginal Society: A Selection of Documents from Dutch Archival Sources, II, 1636-1645, ed. L. Blussé, N.C. Everts (Taipei: Shung Ye Museum of  Formosan Aborigines 2000).

Doortmont, M.R., Everts, N.C., & Vrij, J.J., ‘Tussen de Goudkust, Nederland en Suriname. De Euro-Afrikaanse families Van Bakergem, Woortman, Rühle, en Huydecoper’, De Nederlandse Leeuw 117 (2000) 170-212, 310-344.

The Formosan Encounter. Notes on Formosa’s Aboriginal Society: A Selection of Documents from Dutch Archival Sources, I, 1623-1635. ed. L. Blussé,  N.C. Everts & E. Frech (Taipei: Shung Ye Museum of Aborigines 1999).

Everts, N.C., ‘Huwelijk naar 's lands wijze. Relaties tussen Afrikaanse vrouwen en Europeanen aan de Goudkust (West Afrika), 1700-1817: Een aanpassing van de beeldvorming’, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 4 (1998) 598-616.

Doortmont, M.R. & Everts, N.C., ‘Arij de Graaff (ca. 1729/30-1788): weeskind, WIC-dienaar en Gronings borgheer, zijn voor- en nageslacht’, De Nederlandse Leeuw 114 (1997) 197-218.

Doortmont, M.R. & Everts, N.C., ‘Vrouwen, familie en eigendom op de Goudkust (Ghana). De verwevenheid van Afrikaanse en Europese systemen van erfrecht in Elmina, 1760-1860’, in C. van Eijl, van (ed.), Geld en Goed. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis 17 (Amsterdam: Stichting beheer IISG, 1997) 114-130.

Everts, N.C., ‘Cherchez la Femme: gender-related issues in eighteenth-century Elmina’, Itinerario, 20, 1, (1996) 45-57.

De Dagregisters van het Kasteel Zeelandia, Taiwan 1629-1662, III: 1648-1655, ed. J.L. Blussé, W. Milde, Ts’ao Yung-ho & N.C. Everts (Den Haag: RGP 233, 1996).

Doortmont, M.R. & Everts, N.C., ‘Onzichtbare Afrikanen. Euro-Afrikanen tussen de Goudkust en Nederland, 1750-1850’, in M. 't Hart, J. Lucassen, &  H. Schmal, H. (eds.) Nieuwe Nederlanders. Vestiging van migranten door de eeuwen heen  (Amsterdam: Stichting beheer IISG & SISWO/Instituut voor Maatschappijwetenschappen 1996) 81-100.

De Dagregisters van het kasteel Zeelandia, Taiwan 1629-1662, II: 1641-1648, ed. J.L. Blussé, W. Milde, Ts’ao Yung-ho & N.C. Everts (Den Haag: RGP 229, 1995).