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- Title Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing
- Author Steven M. Friedson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 260
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-09-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780226265025 / 0226265021
- Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.95 x 6.13 x 0.65 in (22.73 x 15.57 x 1.65 cm)
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- Cultural Region: African
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Tumbuka (African people) - Music - History, Tumbuka (African people) - Rites and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95044931
- Dewey Decimal Code 615.882
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For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are filled with music. This ethnography explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients and drummed spirits. Tumbuka healers diagnose diseases by enacting divination trances in which they "see" the causes of past events and their consequences for patients. Music is the structural nexus where healer, patient, and spirit meet - it is the energizing heat that fuels the trance, transforming both the bodily and social functioning of the individual. Friedson shows how the sound of the ng'oma drum, the clapping of the choir, call-and-response singing and the jangle of tin belts and iron anklets do not simply accompany other more important ritual activities - they are the very substance of a sacred clinical reality. This analysis of the relation between music and mental and biological health should interest medical… Read More
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