The Performance of Healing

Carol Laderman, Marina Roseman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

1995
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-91200-6 (ISBN)

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Covers a wide range of medical, holistic and religious aspects of healing and of death, expanding the definition of 'cure' from its narrower sense of restoring a victim to health to the larger goal of repairing social relations.

Medical systems need to be understood from within, as experienced by healers, patients, and others whose minds and hearts have both become involved in this important human undertaking. Exploring how the performance of healing transforms illness to health, initiate to ritual specialist, the authors show that performance does not merely refer to, but actually does something in the world. These essays on the performance of healing in societies ranging from rainforest horticulturalists to dwellers in the American megalopolis will touch readers' senses as well as their intellects.

Carol Laderman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at City College--CUNY. She is the author of Wives and Midwives (1983) and Taming the Wind of Desire (1991). Marina Roseman, the author of Healing Sounds fromthe Malaysian Rainforest (1991) is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Music, Anthropology, Folklore and Folklife, and Associate Faculty of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Introduction, Carol Laderman, Marina Roseman; Chapter 1 Initiating Performance, Laurel Kendall; Chapter 2 On Failure and Performance, Edward Schieffelin; Chapter 3 Imaginal Performance and Memory in Ritual Healing, Thomas J. Csordas; Chapter 4 The Poetics of Healing in Malay Shamanistic Performances, Carol Laderman; Chapter 5 Presence, Robert R. Desjarlais; Chapter 6 Sounds and Things, Paul Stoller; Chapter 7 The Meaning of Nonsense, the Poetics of Embodiment, and the Production of Power in Warao Healing, Charles L. Briggs; Chapter 8 “Pure Products Go Crazy”, Marina Roseman; Chapter 9 From Diagnosis to Performance, Janet Hoskins; Chapter 10 Dying as Medical Performance, Megan Biesele, Robbie Davis-Floyd;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.2.1996
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-91200-8 / 0415912008
ISBN-13	978-0-415-91200-6 / 9780415912006
Zustand	Neuware