Ritual Retellings : : Luangan Healing Performances through Practice / / Isabell Herrman.
Belian is an exceptionally lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans, a politically marginalized population of Indonesian Borneo. This volume explores the significance of these rituals in practice and asks what belian rituals do – socially, politically, and existential...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One Luangan Lives The Order and Disorder of Improvisation and Practice
- Chapter Two Representing Unpredictability
- Chapter Three Making Tactile Ganti Diri Figures and the Magic of Concreteness
- Chapter Four The Uncertainty of Spirit Negotiation
- Chapter Five So that Steam Rises Ritual Bathing as Depersonalization
- Chapter Six It Comes Down to One Origin Reenacting Mythology and the Human-Spirit Relationship in Ritual
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- References
- Index