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Dancing Prophets (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Dancing Prophets (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are
saturated with music. In this groundbreaking ethnography, Steven M.
Friedson explores a health care system populated by dancing
prophets, singing patients, and drummed spirits.
Tumbuka healers diagnose diseases by enacting divination trances in
which they "see" the causes of past events and their consequences
for patients. Music is the structural nexus where healer, patient,
and spirit meet--it is the energizing heat that fuels the trance,
transforming both the bodily and social functioning of the
individual. Friedson shows how the sound of the ng'oma drum, the
clapping of the choir, call-and-response singing, and the jangle of
tin belts and iron anklets do not simply accompany other more
important ritual activities--they are the very substance of a
sacred clinical reality.
This novel look at the relation between music and mental and
biological health will interest medical anthropologists,
Africanists, and religious scholars as well as ethnomusicologists.
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