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Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest

Temiar Music and Medicine

Marina Roseman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:17th Mar '93

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Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest cover

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. As musicologist and anthropologist, Marina Roseman recorded and transcribed Temiar rituals, while as a member of the community she became a participant and even a patient during the course of her two-year stay. She shows how the sounds and gestures of music and dance acquire a potency that can transform thoughts, emotions, and bodies.

ISBN: 9780520082816

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 363g

278 pages