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THEATRE, RITUAL AND TRANSFORMATION
THE SENOI TEMIARS |
| By: |
Sue Jennings |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£60.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415052297 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415052290 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
23 March, 1995 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
Shows how the themes of drama, play, trance, music and dance have been found to be fundamental to the practice of good health in a Malaysian culture, and how this can be applied to the more general notions of therapy, including dramatherapy. . |
| Synopsis: |
Sue Jennings and her three children spent two years on a fieldwork expedition to the Senoi Temiar people of Malaysia: Theatre, Ritual and Transformation is a fascinating account of that experience. She describes how the Temiar regularly perform seances which are enacted through dreams, dance, music and drama, and explains that they see the seance as playing a valuable preventative role in people's lives, as well as being a medium of healing and cure. Her account brings together the insights of drama, therapy and theatre with those of social anthropology to provide an invaluable theoretical framework for understanding theatre and ritual and their links with healing. |
| Illustrations: |
20 b&w illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |