Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) - Tapa blanda

Friedson, Steven M. M.

 
9780226265025: Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
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ISBN 10: 0226265021 ISBN 13: 9780226265025
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1996

Sinopsis

For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are saturated with music. In this groundbreaking ethnography, Steven M. Friedson explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients, and drummed spirits.

Tumbuka healers diagnose diseases by enacting divination trances in which they "see" the causes of past events and their consequences for patients. Music is the structural nexus where healer, patient, and spirit meet—it is the energizing heat that fuels the trance, transforming both the bodily and social functioning of the individual. Friedson shows how the sound of the ng'oma drum, the clapping of the choir, call-and-response singing, and the jangle of tin belts and iron anklets do not simply accompany other more important ritual activities—they are the very substance of a sacred clinical reality.

This novel look at the relation between music and mental and biological health will interest medical anthropologists, Africanists, and religious scholars as well as ethnomusicologists.

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Acerca del autor

Steven M. Friedson is Distinguished Research Professor of Music and Anthropology at the University of North Texas and the author of Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226265021
ISBN 13 
9780226265025
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
259
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9780226265018: Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE)

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ISBN 10:  0226265013 ISBN 13:  9780226265018
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1996
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