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Author Herrmans, Isabell, author.

Title Ritual retellings : Luangan healing performances through practice / Isabell Herrmans.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Epistemologies of healing ; volume 16
Epistemologies of healing ; v. 16.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Luangan lives : the order and disorder of improvisation and practice -- Representing unpredictability -- Making tactile : ganti diri figures and the magic of concreteness -- The uncertainty of spirit negotiation -- So that steam rises : ritual bathing as depersonalization -- It comes down to one origin : reenacting mythology and the human-spirit relationship in ritual.
Summary "Belianis 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 existentially - for particular people in particular circumstances. Departing from the conception that rituals exist as ethereal, liminal or insulated traditional domains, this volume demonstrates the importance of understanding rituals as emergent within their specific historical and social settings. It offers an analysis of a number of concrete ritual performances, exemplifying a diversity of ritual genres, stylistic modalities and sensual ambiences, from low-key, habitual affairs to drawn-out, crowd-seizing community rituals and innovative, montage-like cultural experiments"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Dayak (Bornean people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Dayak (Bornean people)
Rites and ceremonies.
Healing -- Indonesia -- Kalimantan.
Healing.
Indonesia -- Kalimantan.
Traditional medicine -- Indonesia -- Kalimantan.
Traditional medicine.
Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Kalimantan.
Ethnology.
Indonesia -- ethnology.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Herrmans, Isabell. Ritual retellings 9781782385646 (DLC) 2014033540 (OCoLC)889577457
ISBN 9781782385646 (hardback)
1782385649
9781782385653 (ebook)
1782385657
9781782385653