Sinopsis:
Product Description: A rare glimpse of an exotic and imperiled rain-forest culture is the extraordinary record of a Western photographer's eight-year friendship with a tribal medicine man. Mentawai Shaman tells in images and words the story of 'the original people,' or Mentawaians, an archaic tribe who from time immemorial have lived on Siberut--an isolated, ecologically unique jungle island in Indonesia. It is a place where everything, from plants to rocks to animals and man, harbors a spirit. San Francisco-born Charles Lindsay, an ethnographic/naturalist photographer based in Tokyo, first entered the rain forest of Siberut in 1984: ironically, he hitched a ride in a dugout canoe with a team of Indonesian government 'modernizers.' He has returned time and again, intrigued by the Mentawaians' courageous attempt to retain their original culture. Lindsay's guide through the rituals of this areane society is Aman Lau Lau Manai, a shaman, or kerei, who has become his friend as well. During Lindsay's second visit, he began to compile a phrase book for the unwritten Mentawaian language and was permitted to join a ritual monkey hunt. Subsequently, he was invited by messenger to help celebrate the important festival culminating Aman Lau Lau Manai's shamanic studies. Their friendship had begun. After surviving a life-threatening fever, which Aman Lau Lau Manai treated by conjuring his spirit, Lindsay became an adopted member of the new shaman's family.
Biografía del autor:
Reimar Schefold received his Ph.D. in Basel, Switzerland and is currently Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Sociology of Indonesia at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is also Chairman of the Dutch Research Association for Southeast Asia, and a member of the Board of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology. He did research in Sumatra, Sulawesi, and on the Mentawai Islands where he lived for two years. His writing on Indonesia is widely published, including Lia: das grosse Ritual auf den Mentawai-Inseln, Indonesien (Lia: The Great Ritual on the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia) Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1988; and the film The Sakuddei, Granada TV and Odyssey-Series: Public Broadcasting Associates, Inc.
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