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- catalog abstract "The performance of healing is a collection of essays by anthropologists covering a wide range of medical, holistic, and religious aspects of healing and death. The contributors broaden the field of medical anthropology by demonstrating that healing involves the senses in treatments whose efficacy depends in part on dramatic performance. Music, movement, and dialogue; comedy and poetry; audience, players, and props - all constitute the performance of healing. If healing is to be effective, the patient's body and mind must be engaged through the sensory impact of dramatic media. Curing is not just about "making people well"--It also forms a crucial means of reproducing relations of power. A performance directed toward a particular individual might also heal a traumatized social group, expanding the definition of "cure" from its narrow sense of restoring a victim to health to the larger goal of restoring social relations. Medical systems need to be understood from within, as experienced by healers, patients, and others whose minds and hearts have become involved in this undertaking. These essays on the performance of healing, in societies ranging from the rainforest horticulturalists to dwellers in the American megalopolis, will touch readers' senses as well as their intellects.".
- catalog contributor b8544666.
- catalog contributor b8544667.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Initiating performance: the story of Chini, a Korean shaman / Laurel Kendall -- On failure and performance: throwing the medium out of the seance / Edward Schieffelin -- Imaginal performance and memory in ritual healing / Thomas J. Csordas -- The poetics of healing in Malay shamanistic performances / Carol Laderman -- Presence / Robert R. Desjarlais -- Sounds and things: pulsations of power in Songhay / Paul Stoller -- The meaning of nonsense, the poetics of embodiment, and the production of power in Warao healing / Charles L. Briggs -- 'Pure products go crazy': rainforest healing in a nation-state / Marina Roseman -- From diagnosis to performance: medical practice and the politics of exchange in Kodi, West Sumba / Janet Hoskins -- Dying as medical performance: the oncologist as Charon / Megan Biesele and Robbie Davis-Floyd.".
- catalog description "The performance of healing is a collection of essays by anthropologists covering a wide range of medical, holistic, and religious aspects of healing and death. The contributors broaden the field of medical anthropology by demonstrating that healing involves the senses in treatments whose efficacy depends in part on dramatic performance. Music, movement, and dialogue; comedy and poetry; audience, players, and props - all constitute the performance of healing. If healing is to be effective, the patient's body and mind must be engaged through the sensory impact of dramatic media. Curing is not just about "making people well"--It also forms a crucial means of reproducing relations of power. A performance directed toward a particular individual might also heal a traumatized social group, expanding the definition of "cure" from its narrow sense of restoring a victim to health to the larger goal of restoring social relations. Medical systems need to be understood from within, as experienced by healers, patients, and others whose minds and hearts have become involved in this undertaking. These essays on the performance of healing, in societies ranging from the rainforest horticulturalists to dwellers in the American megalopolis, will touch readers' senses as well as their intellects.".
- catalog extent "v, 330 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415911990".
- catalog identifier "0415912008".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "1996 C-553".
- catalog subject "306.4/61 20".
- catalog subject "Folklore Performance.".
- catalog subject "Folklore.".
- catalog subject "GR880 .P38 1996".
- catalog subject "Medicine, Traditional.".
- catalog subject "Shamanism.".
- catalog subject "Traditional medicine.".
- catalog subject "WB 50.1 P438 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Initiating performance: the story of Chini, a Korean shaman / Laurel Kendall -- On failure and performance: throwing the medium out of the seance / Edward Schieffelin -- Imaginal performance and memory in ritual healing / Thomas J. Csordas -- The poetics of healing in Malay shamanistic performances / Carol Laderman -- Presence / Robert R. Desjarlais -- Sounds and things: pulsations of power in Songhay / Paul Stoller -- The meaning of nonsense, the poetics of embodiment, and the production of power in Warao healing / Charles L. Briggs -- 'Pure products go crazy': rainforest healing in a nation-state / Marina Roseman -- From diagnosis to performance: medical practice and the politics of exchange in Kodi, West Sumba / Janet Hoskins -- Dying as medical performance: the oncologist as Charon / Megan Biesele and Robbie Davis-Floyd.".
- catalog title "The performance of healing / edited by Carol Laderman & Marina Roseman.".
- catalog type "text".