Theatre, Ritual and Transformation

Theatre, Ritual and Transformation The Senoi Temiars

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Publisher's Synopsis

Sue Jennings and her three children spent two years on a fieldwork expedition to the Senoi Temiar people of Malaysia: Theatre, Ritual and Transformation is a fascinating account of that experience. She describes how the Temiar regularly perform seances which are enacted through dreams, dance, music and drama, and explains that they see the seance as playing a valuable preventative role in people's lives, as well as being a medium of healing and cure. Her account brings together the insights of drama, therapy and theatre with those of social anthropology to provide an invaluable theoretical framework for understanding theatre and ritual and their links with healing.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780415119900
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
Edition: 1st edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 238
Weight: 427g
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 15mm