Overview

In 1974 Sue Jennings, an anthropologist as well as a dramatherapist, and her three children set off on a fieldwork expedition to the rain forests of Malaysia where they lived with the Senoi Temiar for two years. This book is the fruit of that experience, and brings together the insights of drama, therapy and theatre with those of social anthropology to look at the significance of the human capacity to create play, rituals and drama and the impact this has on the lives of individual people and social groups.

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

This important book brings together in a refreshingly new way the themes of drama, play, trance, music and dance as aspects of a general cultural aesthetic among a Malaysian people, the Temiar. The underlying concern with the aesthetic and how it is continously transformed and yet restores emotional and physical balance and order, is fundamental to ideas and practice of good health. While the special cultural distinctiveness of the Temiar is highlighted, the book provides theoretical insights into more general notions of therapy, especially dramatherapy. <br>-Professor David Parkin, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London <br>

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Sue Jennings

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