Sie können Bookmarks mittels Listen verwalten, loggen Sie sich dafür bitte in Ihr SLUB Benutzerkonto ein.
Medientyp:
E-Book
Titel:
Ritual Retellings
:
Luangan Healing Performances through Practice
Enthält:
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
Beschreibung:
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 and sensual ambiences, from low-key, habitual affairs to drawn-out, crowd-seizing community rituals and innovative, montage-like cultural experiments