Performance of Healing

Name: Performance of Healing
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ISBN: 9780415912006

ISBN-10: 0415912008

ISBN-13: 9780415912006

Edition: 1996

Authors: Carol Laderman, Marina Roseman

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The Performance of Healing covers a wide range of religious, medical and holistic aspects of healing and death. It expands the definition of "cure" from its narrower sense of restoring health to the larger aim of repairing social relations.

Book details

List price: $61.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/21/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880



Introduction




Initiating Performance: The Story of Chini, a Korean Shaman




On Failure and Performance: Throwing the Medium Out of the Seance




Imaginal Performance and Memory in Ritual Healing




The Poetics of Healing in Malay Shamanistic Performances




Presence




Sounds and Things: Pulsations of Power in Songhay




The Meaning of Nonsense, the Poetics of Embodiment, and the Production of Power in Warao Healing




"Pure Products Go Crazy": Rainforest Healing in a Nation-state




From Diagnosis to Performance: Medical Practice and the Politics of Exchange in Kodi, West Sumba




Dying as Medical Performance: The Oncologist as Charon



Index