Ritual Retellings

Luangan Healing Performances through Practice

von Isabell Herrman

306 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Epistemologies of Healing
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften Sitten und Gebräuche
• ISBN: 9781782385646
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2015
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books