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Ritual retellings : Luangan healing performances through practice / Isabell Herrmans.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herrmans, Isabell, author.
- Series:
- Epistemologies of healing ; Volume 16.
- Epistemologies of Healing ; Volume 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dayak (Bornean people)--Rites and ceremonies.
- Dayak (Bornean people).
- Healing--Indonesia--Kalimantan.
- Healing.
- Traditional medicine--Indonesia--Kalimantan.
- Traditional medicine.
- Ethnology--Indonesia--Kalimantan.
- Ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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 existentially - for particular people in particular circumstances. Departing from the conception that rituals exist as ethereal, liminal or insulated traditional domains, this volume demonstrates the importance of understanding rituals as emergent within their specific historical and social settings. It offers an analysis of a number of concrete ritual performances, exemplifying a diversity of ritual genres, stylistic modalities and sensual ambiences, from low-key, habitual affairs to drawn-out, crowd-seizing community rituals and innovative, montage-like cultural experiments"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Ritual Retellings; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Luangan Lives; 2. Representing Unpredictability; 3. Making Tactile; 4. The Uncertainty of SpiritNegotiation; 5. So that Steam Rises; 6. It Comes Down to One Origin; Conclusion; Glossary; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781782385653
- 1782385657
- OCLC:
- 935495618
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