Ritual Retellings

Luangan Healing Performances through Practice
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-564-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

Reihe: Epistemologies of Healing

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herrman, Isabell

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnomedizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Herrman, Isabell
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.