Theatre, Ritual and Transformation

Name: Theatre, Ritual and Transformation
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The Senoi Temiars

By: Sue Jennings

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Paperback | 23 March 1995 | Edition Number 1

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238 Pages

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21.6 x 13.8 x 1.91

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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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"This important book brings together in a refreshingly new way the themes of drama, play, trance, music and dance as aspects of a general cultural aesthetic among a Malaysian people, the Temiar. The underlying concern with the aesthetic and how it is continously transformed and yet restores emotional and physical balance and order, is fundamental to ideas and practice of good health. While the special cultural distinctiveness of the Temiar is highlighted, the book provides theoretical insights into more general notions of therapy, especially dramatherapy." -Professor David Parkin, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

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