Manfred Schäfer (ethnologist)

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Manfred Schäfer (born December 4, 1949 in Amorbach ; † March 9, 2003 in Bad Rodach ) was a German ethnologist, photographer, filmmaker and activist who focused on the economy and barter of the Asháninka, Nomatsiguenga and Ashéninga in Peru as well as on the visual Researched anthropology.

Life

Manfred Schäfer completed his photography training in Aschaffenburg from 1970 to 1973. In 1976 he graduated from the University of Applied Sciences for Photo Engineering in Cologne. He then studied ethnology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he obtained his master's degree in 1982; In 1987 he received his doctorate in this subject. During his training as a photographer and studying film technology, he made numerous trips abroad to North and Central Africa and Madagascar. In the course of studying ethnology, he spent several years doing research in Peru and Mexico. In Peru, Schäfer campaigned for the award of collective land titles to the comunidades nativas of the Asháninka and Nomatsiguenga of the Selva Central. After he published the article “I am not a Campa, but Asháninca” in 1980, experts and the Peruvian public started using the self-designation of this ethnic group. He documented the protests of the Awajún and Asháninka against the attacks during Werner Herzog's film work on “Fitzcarraldo”. From 1989 to 2003 Manfred Schäfer was a freelance producer, author and cameraman of TV documentaries in Peru, Mexico and Cuba for WDR, SWR, 3sat and ARTE. In 2004 the Ethnofilmfest of the Munich Museum für Völkerkunde (Museum of the 5 Continents) dedicated a retrospective to its documentaries.

Publications

literature

  • Asháninca: Imagen y Realidad. In: Lima-Kurier 17: 1-3. Lima 1980.
  • Yo no soy Campa, soy Asháninca. In: Copal . Lima 1980.
  • Indian economy in an Asháninca / Matsiguenga village in the Peruvian Montaña . Munich: Unpublished Master's thesis 1982.
  • Because in reality we are forgotten . Munich: Trickster 1982.
  • Progress into misery. In: Natur 1. Munich 1983.
  • Boss without power. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Munich September 18, 1983.
  • Developed into misery - life in the Peruvian jungle. In: From the way of life in living spaces. Endangerment, destruction and protection of large and small biotopes , pp. 30–42. Munich: dtv 1986. ISBN 3-423-10589-5
  • Ayompari, Amigos and the whip. The interweaving of the economic relations of the Ashéninga in the society of the Gran Pajonal / Eastern Peru . Weilbach 1988.
  • with Ingrid Kummels (Ed.): We are Rarámuri. A documentary by and about Rarámuri (Northern Mexico) . Catalog for the exhibition “We are Rarámuri”. Goethe-Institut Mexico City, the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and the Secretaría de Educación Pública (Programa Cultural de las Fronteras) Weilbach 1988.
  • Ayompari - 'el que me da las cosas'. The intercambio entre los Asháninca y los Ashéninga de la selva central peruana en una perspectiva histórica. In: Jorna, Peter et al. (coord.): Etnohistoria del Amazonas , pp. 45-62. Quito: Abya-Yala 1991.
  • The Ashéninga in the Peruvian lowlands. In: Our future is your future. Indians today. An inventory of the Society for Threatened Peoples , pp. 227–232. Hamburg: Luchterhand 1992. ISBN 3-630-71044-1
  • with Ingrid Kummels: Ethics in Visual Anthropology: On Changing Pictures of the Rarámuri. In: Anthropological Journal on European Cultures 3 (2): 117-132, Anthropology and Ethics, Friborg / Frankfurt a. M. 1994. ISSN  0960-0604
  • with Ingrid Kummels: Between ethnological insights and audience ratings. About chances and pitfalls of ethnological television films. In: Ballhaus, Edmund / Engelbrecht, Beate (ed.): The ethnographic film. Introduction to methods and practice , pp. 203-221, Berlin: Reimer 1995. ISBN 3-496-02552-2
  • with Alicia Castro and Ingrid Kummels: Anacaona. From the life of a Cuban musician . Munich: Econ 2002. ISBN 978-3-430-11752-4

Movies

  • with Ingrid Kummels and Asháninca from the Río Ene: In the green sky. WDR, 16 mm, color, 60 min., 1989.
  • with Ingrid Kummels: In the Shaman's Mirror. WDR, 16 mm, color, 45 min., 1989.
  • with Ingrid Kummels: Santería - Of people and saints in Cuba. WDR / SWF, 16 mm, color, 45 min., 1991.
  • with Ingrid Kummels: Havana Girl Orchestra - A Cuban Family Chronicle. WDR, 16 mm, color, 45 min., 1991.
  • with Ingrid Kummels: The San Juan race. WDR / SWF, 16 mm, color, 45 min., 1992.
  • with Ingrid Kummels: Desert nomads and video kids. The Seri in Mexico. WDR / SWF, 16 mm, color, 45 min., 1995.
  • with Ingrid Kummels: City Indians - The winter journeys of the Rarámuri. WDR / Arte, 16 mm, color, 60 min., 1998.
  • with Ingrid Kummels: trip to Wirikuta. The Huichol and the Peyote Cactus. WDR / SWF / 3sat, 16 mm, color, 45 min., 1998.
  • The whip man strikes. A fiesta in Mexico. BWR, 16 mm, color, 45 min., 2000.
  • with Ingrid Kummels: Anacaona - Ten Sisters of Rhythm. Termidor Musikverlag / Pimienta Records, DVD, 85 min., 2002.
  • with Ingrid Kummels: Buena Vista Sisters' Club. Pa'ti Pa 'mi / Termidor Musikverlag, DVD, 85 min., 2008.

obituary

  • Münzel, Mark: Obituary for Manfred Schäfer. Ethnologist, media person, human rights activist. In: Pogrom 219_3 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Guía Etnográfica de la Alta Amazonía. (PDF) Retrieved December 14, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Colorful and interesting. In: Der Spiegel. December 10, 1979. Retrieved December 14, 2017 .
  3. ^ Colonialism with Caruso. In: jungle.workd. September 6, 2012, accessed December 14, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Country-people-adventure. Productions from 1975 - 2002. (PDF) In: swr.de. February 2002, accessed December 14, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schäfer, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Amorbach
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2003
Place of death Bad Rodach