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Culture summaryessay 2001 • Schefold, Reimar
Mentawaians • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a culture summary of the Mentawaians....The culinary code in the puliaijat ritual of the Mentawaiansarticle 1982 • Schefold, Reimar
Mentawaians • Asia > Southeast Asia
Following a brief introduction to Mentawaian ethnography, with particular emphasis on daily foods consumed, Schefold directs his attention to the study of the Puliaijat ritual of this group, and specifically with those aspects and actions related to ...LiaBook 1988 • Schefold, Reimar
Mentawaians • Asia > Southeast Asia
This book, in German, consists of two major parts. Part 1 describes the day-to-day life and general ethnography of the Sakuddei (Sakkudei) people living on the island of Siberut in the Mentawai archipelago of Indonesia. The second part of this work, ...Religious involutionarticle 1976 • Schefold, Reimar
Mentawaians • Asia > Southeast Asia
Basing his analysis on Clifford Geertz's work on involutionary change in agricultural patterns in Java which triggered off reactions in other culture sectors of the society, Schefold attempts to show in this study how the advent of new external condi...The Sacrifices of the Sakuddei (Mentawai Archipelago, Western Indonesia)essay 1980 • Schefold, Reimar
Mentawaians • Asia > Southeast Asia
This document deals with the functional aspects of sacrifice among the Sakkudei, a group of people living in the interior of Siberut, the northenmost island of the Mentawei Archipelago in western Indonesia.Schefold describes the various types of sacr...The Siberut Projectarticle 1980 • Schefold, Reimar
Mentawaians • Asia > Southeast Asia
After a brief summary of the ethnography of the Sakuddei (Sakkudei) who live in the interior of Siberut Island in the Mentawei Archipelago, the author describes the various external influences which are having a profound affect on the life of the peo...The Unequal brothers-in-lawarticle 1986 • Schefold, Reimar
Mentawaians • Asia > Southeast Asia
This article opens with an introductory section on the concept of Indonesia as a "field of anthropological study" using concepts of construction based on the writings of J. P. B. de Josselin de Jong, P. E. de Josselin de Jong, and Claude Lévi-Strauss...The speaking signessay 1991 • Schefold, Reimar
Mentawaians • Asia > Southeast Asia
For many years the anthropological model of the exchange of women as the basic principle in all clan alliances has been an accepted fact in the literature of anthropology. "This model is based on the assumption that in all forms of marriage leading t...