Description: Taming the Wind of Desire : Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance, Paperback by Laderman, Carol, ISBN 0520082583, ISBN-13 9780520082588, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits—the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore—in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western anthropologists as exotic curiosities, actually reveal complex multicultural origins and a unique indigenous medical tradition whose psychological content is remarkably relevant to contemporary Western concerns. Accepted as apprentice to a Malay shaman, Carol Laderman learned and recorded every aspect of the healing seance and found it comparable in many ways to the traditional dramas of Southeast Asia and of other cultures such as ancient Greece, Japan, and India. The Malay seance is a total performance, complete with audience, stage, props, plot, music, and dance. The players include the patient along with the shaman and his troupe. At the center of the drama are pivotal relationships—among people, between humans and spirits, and within the self. The best of the Malay shamans are superb poets, dramatists, and performers as well as effective healers of body and soul.
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Book Title: Taming the Wind of Desire : Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance
Number of Pages: 386 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 1993
Topic: Shamanism, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, Psychology
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Author: Carol Laderman
Item Length: 9.2 in
Book Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
