Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine

Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine
ISBN-10
0520082818
ISBN-13
9780520082816
Category
Social Science
Pages
254
Language
English
Published
1993-03-26
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Marina Roseman

Description

"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

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