Theatre, Ritual and Transformation: The Senoi Temiar
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 the 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...
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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 the 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 framework for understanding theatre and ritual and their links with healing.
List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1Setting the scene12Introducing the Temiars253Boundaries and transformations434Temiar body: Control and invasion565Temiar space: Order and disorder776Dreams, souls and trance997Women and blood1198Temiar healers: Shaman and midwives1379Healing performances: Dance-dramas of prevention and cure15210The epic metaphor: The paradox of healing175Notes194Bibliography197Index203
