Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest

Temiar Music and Medicine
1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-520-08281-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

Reihe: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roseman, Marina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Innere Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Figures and Tables
Plates
Acknowledgments
Orthography

1. Introduction 1
Jungle Paths and Spirit Songs
The Articulation Between Musical and Medical Domains
Theoretical Considerations
The Orang Asli
Translating 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 Potential
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 Late 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

Über Autor(innen)

Marina Roseman is Assistant Professor of Music and of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and has been recognized for her work in ethnomusicology and traditional Asian medicine.