Theatre, Ritual and Transformation: The Senoi Temiars

by Sue Jennings

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415119900
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/23/1995
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

'This is an interesting, clear and coherently organised book.' - Social Anthropology

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