Ritual retellings : Luangan healing performances through practice /
"Belianis an exceptionally lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans, a politically marginalized population of Indonesian Borneo. This volume explores the significance of these rituals in practice and asks what belian rituals do - socially, politically, and existe...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New York :
Berghahn Books,
2015.
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Colección: | Epistemologies of healing ;
v. 16. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Luangan lives : the order and disorder of improvisation and practice
- Representing unpredictability
- Making tactile : ganti diri figures and the magic of concreteness
- The uncertainty of spirit negotiation
- So that steam rises : ritual bathing as depersonalization
- It comes down to one origin : reenacting mythology and the human-spirit relationship in ritual.