Theatre, Ritual and Transformation

The Senoi Temiars

Sue Jennings (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

1995
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-11990-0 (ISBN)

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Shows how the themes of drama, play, trance, music and dance have been found to be fundamental to the practice of good health in a Malaysian culture, and how this can be applied to the more general notions of therapy, including dramatherapy. .

Sue Jennings and her three children spent two years on a fieldwork expedition to the Senoi Temiar people of Malaysia: Theatre, Ritual and Transformation is a fascinating account of that experience. She describes how the Temiar regularly perform seances which are enacted through dreams, dance, music and drama, and explains that they see the seance as playing a valuable preventative role in people's lives, as well as being a medium of healing and cure. Her account brings together the insights of drama, therapy and theatre with those of social anthropology to provide an invaluable theoretical framework for understanding theatre and ritual and their links with healing.

Sue Jennings

1: Setting the scene; 2: Introducing the Temiars; 3: Boundaries and transformations; 4: Temiar body; 5: Temiar space; 6: Dreams, souls and trance; 7: Women and blood; 8: Temiar healers; 9: Healing performances; 10: The epic metaphor

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.3.1995
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-11990-1 / 0415119901
ISBN-13	978-0-415-11990-0 / 9780415119900
Zustand	Neuware