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Paperback Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine Volume 28 Book

ISBN: 0520082818

ISBN13: 9780520082816

Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine Volume 28

(Part of the Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Series)

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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...

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Dreamsongs to bring the soul back home

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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