Taming the Wind of Desire

Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance

Carol Laderman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

386 Seiten

1993
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-08258-8 (ISBN)

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An ethnographic study of Malay healing ceremonies involving the practices of shamen, who place their patients in a trance and encourage them to express their inner thoughts in a type of performance. The ceremony reveals a psychological content relevant to Western medical practice today.

Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits--the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore--in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western anthropologists as exotic curiosities, actually reveal complex multicultural origins and a unique indigenous medical tradition whose psychological content is remarkably relevant to contemporary Western concerns. Accepted as apprentice to a Malay shaman, Carol Laderman learned and recorded every aspect of the healing seance and found it comparable in many ways to the traditional dramas of Southeast Asia and of other cultures such as ancient Greece, Japan, and India. The Malay seance is a total performance, complete with audience, stage, props, plot, music, and dance. The players include the patient along with the shaman and his troupe. At the center of the drama are pivotal relationships--among people, between humans and spirits, and within the self. The best of the Malay shamans are superb poets, dramatists, and performers as well as effective healers of body and soul.

Carol Laderman is Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at the City College of the City University of New York and the author of Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia (California, 1984).

Preface
Acknowledgments
PART 1. MALAY MEDICINE, MALAY PERSON
1. An Introduction to Malay Shamanism
2. Islamic Humoralism on the Malay Peninsula
3. "Unusual" Illnesses
4. Angin: the Inner Winds
5. The Performance of Healing
PART n. RITUAL DRAMAS OF HEALING
6. A Stifled Talent
7. Seance for a Sick Shaman
8. Breaking Contracts with the Spirit World
PART III. AFTERWORD
9. Words and Meaning
APPENDIX A. A SHAMAN SPEAKS
APPENDIX B. MUSIC OF THE MAIN PETERI
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.3.1993
Reihe/Serie	Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care ; 29
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Humanistische Psychotherapien
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-08258-3 / 0520082583
ISBN-13	978-0-520-08258-8 / 9780520082588
Zustand	Neuware