Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine"One of the best pieces of ethnomusicological research of the last ten years. Roseman shows just how central musical ideas and practices are to a way of knowing and imagining the world, to a way of transforming ordinary experiences, and to penetrating belief systems more broadly."—Steven Feld, University of Texas, Austin "An exciting contribution to interpretive medical anthropology. Moving analytically between Temiar cultural constrictions of illness and health, and the humanely organized sounds of healing ceremonies, Roseman explicates the culural logic whereby aesthetic configurations participate in a comprehensive, therapeutically effective pattern of reality. This author has brocaded medical anthropology with ethnomusicology, producing a shimmering postmodern ethnographic tapestry of great subtlety and strength."—Barbara Tedlock, SUNY, Buffalo |
Contents
Concepts of Being | 20 |
Head Souls | 36 |
Spirits Sounds Goods and Selves | 45 |
Becoming a Healer | 52 |
The Dream Performed | 92 |
The Aesthetics of Longing | 151 |
Songs of a Spirited World | 174 |
Appendix A Temiar Transliterations | 185 |
Notes | 191 |
45 | 198 |
Glossary | 208 |
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Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine Marina Roseman Limited preview - 1991 |
Common terms and phrases
Abilem Lum Ading Kerah Angah animals Annual Fruit Anthropology bamboo tubes Batek belian Benjamin Bǝrǝk birds body bomoh ceremonial performance Chewong cicada context cosmos cultural dance dancers detached DREAM NARRATIVE dream songs dreamer emerge entities Ethnomusicology everyday female chorus flowers fruit trees genhaa genres Golden-throated barbet halaa head soul healing heart soul human illness agents interaction jungle kahyɛk Kaluli Kelantan kɛnuuh Kirk Endicott Kuala Kuala Lumpur leaf ornaments lower-portion souls Malay Malaysia mediumship metaphorically misik mountain mouthharp nonhuman nɔŋ odor Orang Asli Pandak participants patient Penghulu Perah Perak person phrase Press pulsating rainforest Rambutan Rambutan Fruit relationship rǝwaay ritual river Semai Semang Senoi sentiment of longing settlement shadow-form singers singing ceremonies singing sessions social song texts soul loss sounds species spirit spirit-mediumship spiritguide startled swaying swaying dance symbolic Temiar Temiar mediums Temiar musical tiger tion trance trance-dancing ceremonies trancers transformation University upper-portion soul woman women