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Ritual Retellings - Luangan Healing Performances through Practice (Hardcover)
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Ritual Retellings - Luangan Healing Performances through Practice (Hardcover)
Series: Epistemologies of Healing
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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.
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