Framing Indonesian Realities: Essays in Symbolic Anthropology in Honour of Reimar Schefold
By Unknown Author.
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, collegues and former students from the Netherlands and abroad demonstrate the varie...
ISBN(s)
9067182184, 9789067182188
