Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest : Temiar Music and Medicine / Marina Roseman; ed. by Marina Roseman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roseman, Marina, Author.

Contributor:

Roseman, Marina, Editor.

Series:

Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senoi (Southeast Asian people)--Rites and ceremonies.

Senoi (Southeast Asian people).

Senoi (Southeast Asian people)--Medicine.

Senoi (Southeast Asian people)--Music.

Traditional medicine--Malaysia.

Traditional medicine.

Folk music--Malaysia.

Folk music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1991]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures and Tables

Plates

Acknowledgments

Orthography

1. Introduction

2. Concepts of Being

3. Becoming a Healer

4. The Dream Performed

5. Setting the Cosmos in Motion: Sources of Illness and Methods of Treatment

6. Remembering to Forget: The Aesthetics of Longing

7. Songs of a Spirited World

Appendix A. Temiar Transliterations

Appendix B. Discography

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023)

ISBN:

0-585-13212-7

0-520-91383-3