Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance
Author:   Carol Laderman
Publisher:   University of California Press
Volume:   29
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9780520082588


Pages:   386
Publication Date:   10 March 1993
Format:   Paperback
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Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits-the ""Inner Winds"" of Malay medical lore-in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western anthropologists as exotic curiosities, actually reveal complex multicultural origins and a unique indigenous medical tradition whose psychological content is remarkably relevant to contemporary Western concerns. Accepted as apprentice to a Malay shaman, Carol Laderman learned and recorded every aspect of the healing seance and found it comparable in many ways to the traditional dramas of Southeast Asia and of other cultures such as ancient Greece, Japan, and India. The Malay seance is a total performance, complete with audience, stage, props, plot, music, and dance. The players include the patient along with the shaman and his troupe. At the center of the drama are pivotal relationships-among people, between humans and spirits, and within the self. The best of the Malay shamans are superb poets, dramatists, and performers as well as effective healers of body and soul.

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Author:   Carol Laderman
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   29
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780520082588


ISBN 10:   0520082583
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   10 March 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments PART 1. MALAY MEDICINE, MALAY PERSON 1. An Introduction to Malay Shamanism 2. Islamic Humoralism on the Malay Peninsula 3. Unusual Illnesses 4. Angin: the Inner Winds 5. The Performance of Healing PART n. RITUAL DRAMAS OF HEALING 6. A Stifled Talent 7. Seance for a Sick Shaman 8. Breaking Contracts with the Spirit World PART III. AFTERWORD 9. Words and Meaning APPENDIX A. A SHAMAN SPEAKS APPENDIX B. MUSIC OF THE MAIN PETERI Glossary Bibliography Index

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"""This book will be a valuable resource for a wide readership, as it explores issues of healing, performance and cultural change.""--Linda Connor, ""Health Transition Review"


This book will be a valuable resource for a wide readership, as it explores issues of healing, performance and cultural change. --Linda Connor, Health Transition Review


""This book will be a valuable resource for a wide readership, as it explores issues of healing, performance and cultural change.""--Linda Connor, ""Health Transition Review


Author Information

Carol Laderman is Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at the City College of the City University of New York and the author of Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia (California, 1984).

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