TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herrmans, Isabell
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015//
TI  - Ritual retellings: Luangan healing performances through practice
T3  - Epistemologies of healing 16
PB  - Berghahn Books
CY  - New York, NY [u.a.]
KW  - Dayak (Indonesian people)
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Healing
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - Kalimantan
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Dayak (Bornean people)
KW  - Dajak
KW  - Heilung
KW  - Performanz
AB  - "Belianis 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"--
SN  - 9781782385646
LA  - English
N1  - Isabell Herrmans
ID  - 1613824769
ER  -