Reinhard Kapfer

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Reinhard Kapfer (born 1952 ) is a German ethnologist and author who also trained as a farmer and works in publishing.

Live and act

Reinhard Kapfer was born in 1952 and grew up in Upper Bavaria . He studied ethnology and literature . He is one of the founders of the ethnological journal Trickster , from which the Trickster publishing house emerged . Edition Trickster has been continued by Peter Hammer Verlag since 1996 . He lived in Maroua in Cameroon for several years .

Publications (selection)

  • Flaherty's heirs: the hour of ethnographers. Trickster-Verlag, Munich 1988.
  • Rituals of Life and Death: Robert Gardner and His Films. Trickster-Verlag, Munich 1989.
  • Hunter and the Hunted: John Marshall and His Films. Trickster-Verlag, Munich 1991.
  • Waymarks: a library of ethnological imagination. Hammer, Wuppertal 1998.
  • The women of Maroua: love, sexuality and marriage in North Cameroon. Hammer, Wuppertal 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Vita - peter-hammer-verlag.de (accessed on June 26, 2017)