TY - BOOK ID - 135022952 TI - Framing Indonesian Realities : Essays in Symbolic Anthropology in Honour of Reimar Schefold AU - Nas, Peter J.M. AU - Persoon, G.A. PY - 2003 SN - 9789004486829 9789067182188 9067182184 9004486828 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Ethnology KW - Symbolic anthropology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135022952 AB - 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. ER -