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Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest : Temiar Music and Medicine

Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest : Temiar Music and Medicine Paperback - 1993

by Marina Roseman

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  • Title Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest : Temiar Music and Medicine
  • Author Marina Roseman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 278
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 1993
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0520082818I5N00
  • ISBN 9780520082816 / 0520082818
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.97 x 5.98 x 0.67 in (22.78 x 15.19 x 1.70 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90011253
  • Dewey Decimal Code 615.882

First line

Traveling through the Malaysian rainforest, one first senses the presence of a Temiar settlement through a change in the density of jungle foliage: primary forest gives way in patches to secondary forest.

From the rear cover

"One of the best pieces of ethnomusicological research of the last ten years. Roseman shows just how central musical ideas and practices are to a way of knowing and imagining the world, to a way of transforming ordinary experiences, and to penetrating belief systems more broadly."--Steven Feld, University of Texas, Austin

"An exciting contribution to interpretive medical anthropology. Moving analytically between Temiar cultural constrictions of illness and health, and the humanely organized sounds of healing ceremonies, Roseman explicates the culural logic whereby aesthetic configurations participate in a comprehensive, therapeutically effective pattern of reality. This author has brocaded medical anthropology with ethnomusicology, producing a shimmering postmodern ethnographic tapestry of great subtlety and strength."--Barbara Tedlock, SUNY, Buffalo

About the author

Marina Roseman is Assistant Professor of Music and of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and has been recognized for her work in ethnomusicology and traditional Asian medicine.