Pain, Play and Music : Death and Healing Rites Among the Wana / Giorgio Scalici.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scalici, Giorgio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Religious aspects--Indonesia.

Death.

Music--Religious aspects--Indonesia.

Music.

Wana (Indonesian people)--Rites and ceremonies.

Wana (Indonesian people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

The Wana people of Morowali accept the experiences of pain, illness and loss and transform them into something positive: rituals that celebrate life, friendship and the community. Through fieldwork with the Wana people of Morowali, Central Sulawesi, Giorgio Scalici shows how music serves as a connection between the human world and the hidden world of spirits and emotion. By examining rituals such as the momago, the main Wana healing ritual, and the kayori, the funeral, this book investigates how music is used by the Wana to heal people, control emotions, reinforce the sense of community and to mark the cultural death of the community member. In this study, music transforms the pain of loss into a playful event that heals the community and assures its future. This book will be of interest to the wider academic study of religion, anthropology and ethnomusicology as it looks as at funerals as healing rituals for the community which lead the living and the dead through critical times.

Contents:

List of Figures List of Tables Map Foreword, Douglas Davies (Durham University) Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Theories and Themes Part 2: A Cultural Framework of the Life and Reality of the Wana people Part 3: The momago Part 4: The kayori Part 5: The Expression of Cultural Values in Rituals Bibliography Sitography Videography Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350236288

1350236284

9781350236264

1350236268

9781350236271

1350236276

OCLC:

1424746290