Explores the significance of Belian curing rituals in practice. Demonstrates the importance of understanding rituals as emergent within their specific historical and social settings. Offers an analysis of a number of concrete ritual performances, exemplifying a diversity of ritual genres, stylistic modalities and sensual ambiences.
Explores the significance of Belian curing rituals in practice. Demonstrates the importance of understanding rituals as emergent within their specific historical and social settings. Offers an analysis of a number of concrete ritual performances, exemplifying a diversity of ritual genres, stylistic modalities and sensual ambiences.
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.
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Luangan Lives: The Order and Disorder of Improvisation and Practice Chapter 2. Representing Unpredictability Chapter 3. Making Tactile: Ganti Diri Figures and the Magic of Concreteness Chapter 4. The Uncertainty of Spirit Negotiation Chapter 5. So that Steam Rises: Ritual Bathing as Depersonalization Chapter 6. It Comes Down to One Origin: Reenacting Mythology and the Human-Spirit Relationship in Ritual Conclusion Glossary References Index
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Luangan Lives: The Order and Disorder of Improvisation and Practice Chapter 2. Representing Unpredictability Chapter 3. Making Tactile: Ganti Diri Figures and the Magic of Concreteness Chapter 4. The Uncertainty of Spirit Negotiation Chapter 5. So that Steam Rises: Ritual Bathing as Depersonalization Chapter 6. It Comes Down to One Origin: Reenacting Mythology and the Human-Spirit Relationship in Ritual Conclusion Glossary References Index
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