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The performance of healing / edited by Carol Laderman & Marina Roseman.

Contributor(s): Laderman, Carol | Roseman, Marina, 1952-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1996Description: v, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415911990; 0415912008Subject(s): Traditional medicine | Folklore -- Performance | ShamanismDDC classification: 306.4/61 LOC classification: GR880 | .P38 1996Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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