Reimar Schefold

Reimar Schefold ( * 1938 in Basel) is professor emeritus of Cultural Anthropology and Sociology of Indonesia at Leiden University. He is the son of the classical archaeologist Karl Schefold and grandson of the famous ethnologist Karl von den stones.

Different field research led him to the Indonesian Mentawai Islands. He spent several years with the people of the Sakuddei on the island of Siberut and studied their lives in the rainforest. He wrote a number of books, among others, about religious beliefs, traditional culture, songs and head hunting. Another focus is on traditional architecture.

He is Chairman of KITLV / Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies. His special interests are the thematic Symbolic anthropology, material culture and ethnicity. Reimar Schefold is the author and co-author of numerous books and lives with his family in Amsterdam. He also held the estate of his uncle Helmut from the stones.

Literature (selection )

• Indonesia aka kabar? , Along with Peter Homan, Meppel (Netherlands) in 1990.
• Lia - the big ritual on the Mentawai Islands (Indonesia ), Berlin 1988.
• For the soul, in: Wolfgang Frommel: Three Meditations, Amsterdam 1983.
• Toys for souls - art and culture of the Mentawai Islands (Indonesia ), Catalogue of a special exhibition at the helm House Zurich, Zurich 1980
• Schefold, R., Nagel, U., Hauser- Schäublin, B., school body Third World ( Bern ), Swiss Association for the Teaching and Research film., & WWF Switzerland. (1982). Be good to your soul: life in the tropical rain forest: the example of Sakuddei ( " Be nice to your soul: life in the tropical rainforest: the example of Sakuddei "). Teaching aid of WWF - service teacher and the school office Third World. Zurich: WWF - teacher service.
• Schefold, Reimar (1966 ): attempt at a stylistic analysis of the suspension hooks from Middle Sepik New Guinea; Also published as Vol, Basel contributions to ethnology. 4 Pharos -Verlag. S. 304