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Description:Ritual language, wild and domestic animals, and objects of material culture like houses, palaces, and works of art, are often loaded with symbolic meaning. Reading the landscape', or giving meaning to the natural environment, is a cultural act as well, and one must discover what mountains, coastlines, and islands mean to different groups of people. In this book, written on the occasion of Professor Reimar Schefold's retirement from the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University, colleagues and former students from the Netherlands and abroad demonstrate the variety and wealth of the field of symbolic anthropology. The regional focus of the book is Indonesia. The studies presented range from small island communities in western, northern, and eastern Indonesia to urban settlements in Java and Sumatra. All the contributions are in one way or another related to Reimar Schefold's work over the past thirty-five years, work that includes extensive studies on material culture, rituals, and the use of symbols in the expression of ethnicity among the various cultural groups of Indonesia."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Framing Indonesian Realities: Essays in Symbolic Anthropology in Honour of Reimar Schefold (Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land). To get started finding Framing Indonesian Realities: Essays in Symbolic Anthropology in Honour of Reimar Schefold (Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: KITLV Press

Release: 2003

ISBN: 9067182184

Description: Ritual language, wild and domestic animals, and objects of material culture like houses, palaces, and works of art, are often loaded with symbolic meaning. Reading the landscape', or giving meaning to the natural environment, is a cultural act as well, and one must discover what mountains, coastlines, and islands mean to different groups of people. In this book, written on the occasion of Professor Reimar Schefold's retirement from the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University, colleagues and former students from the Netherlands and abroad demonstrate the variety and wealth of the field of symbolic anthropology. The regional focus of the book is Indonesia. The studies presented range from small island communities in western, northern, and eastern Indonesia to urban settlements in Java and Sumatra. All the contributions are in one way or another related to Reimar Schefold's work over the past thirty-five years, work that includes extensive studies on material culture, rituals, and the use of symbols in the expression of ethnicity among the various cultural groups of Indonesia."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Framing Indonesian Realities: Essays in Symbolic Anthropology in Honour of Reimar Schefold (Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land). To get started finding Framing Indonesian Realities: Essays in Symbolic Anthropology in Honour of Reimar Schefold (Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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