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Isabell Herrman - Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice - 9781782385646 - V9781782385646
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Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice

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Description for Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice Hardback. Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMNX; HRLF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.

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 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Epistemologies of Healing
Condition
New
Weight
578g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782385646
SKU
V9781782385646
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Ref
99-15

About Isabell Herrman
Isabell Herrmans is a post-doctoral researcher in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. She has done fieldwork in Indonesian Borneo since 1993, and has research interests in shamanistic curing practices, Indonesian politics of religion, animistic ontologies, and sensory experience.

Reviews for Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice
“Ritual Retellings contributes to the rich ethnographic tradition of scholarship in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. The author situates the Luangan ethnographically, detailing comparisons with other peoples in Kalimantan as well as with peoples in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and elsewhere in Indonesia. For ethnographers and scholars of Southeast Asia, this book is an important addition to the literature.” • Medical Anthropology Quarterly ... Read more

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