Music and dance play a central role in the "healing arts" of the Senoi Temiar, a group of hunters and horticulturalists dwelling in the rainforest of peninsular Malaysia. As musicologist and anthropologist, Marina Roseman recorded and transcribed Temiar rituals, while as a member of the community she became a participant and even a patient during the course of her two-year stay. She shows how the sounds and gestures of music and dance acquire a potency that can transform thoughts, emotions, and bodies.
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"One of the best pieces of ethnomusicological research of the last ten years. Roseman shows just how central musical ideas and practices are to a way of knowing and imagining the world, to a way of transforming ordinary experiences, and to penetrating belief systems more broadly."--Steven Feld, University of Texas, Austin
"An exciting contribution to interpretive medical anthropology. Moving analytically between Temiar cultural constrictions of illness and health, and the humanely organized sounds of healing ceremonies, Roseman explicates the culural logic whereby aesthetic configurations participate in a comprehensive, therapeutically effective pattern of reality. This author has brocaded medical anthropology with ethnomusicology, producing a shimmering postmodern ethnographic tapestry of great subtlety and strength."--Barbara Tedlock, SUNY, Buffalo
"An exciting contribution to interpretive medical anthropology. Moving analytically between Temiar cultural constrictions of illness and health, and the humanely organized sounds of healing ceremonies, Roseman explicates the culural logic whereby aesthetic configurations participate in a comprehensive, therapeutically effective pattern of reality. This author has brocaded medical anthropology with ethnomusicology, producing a shimmering postmodern ethnographic tapestry of great subtlety and strength."--Barbara Tedlock, SUNY, Buffalo
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This is both a superb work of scholarship and fieldwork, and a beautiful account of how dreaming can help us to find our way through the jungles of life, and to bring through healing - above all, the recovery of lost soul energy. I hope it will find a much broader audience, because it is not only brilliant and scrupulous ethnography, but a treasure-trove of indigenous wisdom on healing body and spirit.
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Traveling through the Malaysian rainforest, one first senses the presence of a Temiar settlement through a change in the density of jungle foliage: primary forest gives way in patches to secondary forest. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interactive selves, liquid kahyek, ritual singing sessions, female choral response, cool spiritual liquid, hanging leaf ornament, initial singer, bounded souls, illness agents, head soul, sociocentric self, fluid beauty, tube zither, leaf ornaments, singing ceremonies, ceremonial ornaments, ceremonial participants, ceremonial performance, singing ceremony, illness etiology, trance behavior, spirit seances, duple rhythm, female chorus, nonhuman entities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Traveling through the Malaysian rainforest, one first senses the presence of a Temiar settlement through a change in the density of jungle foliage: primary forest gives way in patches to secondary forest. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interactive selves, liquid kahyek, ritual singing sessions, female choral response, cool spiritual liquid, hanging leaf ornament, initial singer, bounded souls, illness agents, head soul, sociocentric self, fluid beauty, tube zither, leaf ornaments, singing ceremonies, ceremonial ornaments, ceremonial participants, ceremonial performance, singing ceremony, illness etiology, trance behavior, spirit seances, duple rhythm, female chorus, nonhuman entities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Orang Ash, Abilem Lum, Ading Kerah, Penghulu Dalam, Uda Pandak, Annual Fruit Way, Keranih Laloh, Penghulu Hitam, The Dream Performed, Kirk Endicott, Rambutan Fruit King, Southeast Asia, Setting the Cosmos, Aring River, Monitor Lizard, Mother Fluid Beauty, Orang Asli, Rambutan Fruit Way, Tiger King, Ulu Kelantan, Kuala Betis, Altij Hitam, Gunung Tahan, Pandak Hibel, Sungei Barok New!
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- Primitive Classification by Emile Durkheim in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Rustle of Language by Roland Barthes on page 181, and Back Matter
- The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger in Back Matter
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- The Performance of Healing by Carol Laderman on page 88, and page 112
- New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie (Theory and Practice in Medicalanthropology) by Margaret Lock on page 33, and page 139
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