Ritual Retellings

Luangan Healing Performances through Practice

Isabell Herrman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2015
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-564-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2015
Reihe/Serie	Epistemologies of Healing
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	581 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78238-564-9 / 1782385649
ISBN-13	978-1-78238-564-6 / 9781782385646
Zustand	Neuware