Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine.
Berkeley: Uni. of California Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. xviii + 234pp. 8vo. Cloth. B/w plates. Biblio & index. A volume in the 'Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care' series.
From the publisher: "Music and dance play a central role in the healing arts of the 'Senoi Temiar,' a group of hunters and horticulturalists dwelling in the rainforest of peninsular Malaysia. Musical performance and medical practice are fused, in fact, by the healer's songs, choral responses, and percussion that characterise traditional Temiar medical rituals. As musicologist and anthropologist, Marina Roseman recorded and transcribed these rituals; ... she shows how the sounds and gestures of music and dance acquire a potency that can transform thoughts, emotions, and bodies." Small scrape to fore-edge, otherwise a bright, clean VG+ copy in VG dustwrapper (a few creases across back panel). Item #28439
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