Bakels, Jet

Jet Bakels is an ethnologist specialized in human–animal relations, with a special interest in dangerous and categorially ambiguous animals, both in the wild and in captivity. She holds a PhD from Leiden University, the Netherlands. Bakels has conducted extensive Þeldwork in several locations in Indonesia. As a museum curator – now at Artis, the Amsterdam zoo – and writer of children’s books, she strives to bring issues around human–animal relations to a wider public.