Jean Kommers (Radboud University Nijmegen) is an anthropologist, participating in a research project on the history of "Gypsies" Paradojas de la ciudadanía (University of Seville). He specializes in ethnography and image formation about 'exotic' peoples. His Ph.D. thesis is about the Dutch Colonial Administration in the former East Indies, 1800-1830, with special attention to the ethnographic knowledge that officials pretended to possess.