Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest. Temiar Music and Medicine
Roseman, Marina
University of California Press. 1991Ficha técnica
- EAN: 9780520082816
- ISBN: 978-0-520-08281-6
- Editorial: University of California Press
- Fecha de edición: 1991
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Dimensiones: 15x23
- Idioma: Inglés
- Nº páginas: 278
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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 that can transform thoughts, emotions, and bodies.
CONTENIDO
Figures and tables
Plates
Acknowledgments
Orthography
1. Introduction
- Jungle Paths and Spirit Songs
- The Articulation Between Musical and Medical Domains
- Theoretical Considerations
- The Orang Asli
- Traslating Worlds
2. Concepts of Being
- Head Souls
- Heart Souls
- Odor
- Shadow
- Spirits, Sounds, Goods, and Selves
3. Becoming a Healer
- Dreaming
- Singers of the Landscape
- Halaa' Adeptness: A Potencial
- Halaa' and Leadership: A Role
- The Nonadept: Alternative Strategies for Wives and Women
- Land, Person, and Song
4. The Dream Performed
- Spiritguide Genres
- The Social Structuring of Sound
- Male Mediums and Female Chorus
- Symbolic Classifications and Metaphors for Sound
- Symbolic Inversion: Everyday Life and Ritual Performance
5. Setting the Cosmos in Motion: Sources of Illness and Methods of Treatment
- Sources of Illness
- Setting the Cosmos in Motion
- Singing as Transformation
6. Remembering to Forget: The Aesthetics of Longing
- Remembering to Forget
- The Aesthetics of Longing
- Longing in the Lata Afternoon: Instrumental Music
- The Aesthetics of Sway: Dance and Movement
- Soul Loss
- Musical Form, Emotion, and Meaning
7. Songs of a Spirited World
- The Body as Nexus
- Ensouling the World
Appendix A. Temiar Transliterations
Appendix B. Discography
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index