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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Book Overview
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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520082818
ISBN13:9780520082816
Release Date:March 1993
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:278 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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Dreamsongs to bring the soul back home
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
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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