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Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing [Chicago Studies in Ethn
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- ISBN
- 9780226265025
- Subject Area
- Psychology, Music, Health & Fitness, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Dancing Prophets : Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Subject
- Psychotherapy / General, Ethnomusicology, Healing, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Series
- Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 14 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 260 Pages
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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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University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226265021
ISBN-13
9780226265025
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Dancing Prophets : Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Psychotherapy / General, Ethnomusicology, Healing, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
1996
Series
Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology, Music, Health & Fitness, Social Science
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
95-044931
Lc Classification Number
Ml350.F75 1996
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on Orthography Introduction: Ethnography as Possibility 1: To Dance and To Dream 2: God, Humans, and Spirits 3: Blood and Spirit: The Chilopa Sacrifice 4: The Musical Construction of Clinical Reality 5: In the Vimbuza Mode 6: Conclusion: An Ontology of Energy Epilogue Appendix A: Glossary of Vimbuza Spirits Appendix B: Vimbuza Rhythmic Mottos Appendix C: Vimbuza Song Texts Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
1996
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
615.8/82/096897
Dewey Edition
20
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Yes
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