Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and MedicineMusic 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
THE ARTICULATION BETWEEN MUSICAL AND MEDICAL DOMAINS | 9 |
THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS | 11 |
THE ORANG ASLI | 17 |
TRANSLATING WORLDS | 20 |
Concepts of Being | 24 |
HEAD SOULS | 25 |
HEART SOULS | 30 |
SYMBOLIC CLASSIFICATIONS AND METAPHORS FOR SOUND | 118 |
EVERYDAY LIFE AND RITUAL PERFORMANCE | 126 |
Setting the Cosmos in Motion Sources of Illness and Methods of Treatment | 129 |
SETTING THE COSMOS IN MOTION | 145 |
SINGING AS TRANSFORMATION | 148 |
Remembering to Forget The Aesthetics of Longing | 151 |
REMEMBERING TO FORGET | 152 |
THE AESTHETICS OF LONGING | 156 |
ODOR | 36 |
SHADOW | 40 |
SPIRITS SOUNDS GOODS AND SELVES | 45 |
Becoming a Healer | 52 |
DREAMING | 56 |
SINGERS OF THE LANDSCAPE | 63 |
A POTENTIAL | 72 |
A ROLE | 73 |
ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES FOR WIVES AND WOMEN | 76 |
LAND PERSON AND SONG | 78 |
The Dream Performed | 80 |
SPIRITGUIDE GENRES | 87 |
THE SOCIAL STRUCTURING OF SOUND | 105 |
MALE MEDIUMS AND FEMALE CHORUS | 106 |
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Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine Marina Roseman Limited preview - 1993 |
Common terms and phrases
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