Theatre, Ritual and Transformation

The Senoi Temiars
1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-415-11990-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jennings, Sue

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Physiotherapie, Physikalische Therapie Ergotherapie, Kreativtherapie (z. B. Kunst, Musik, Theater)
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Sue Jennings