Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Steven M. Friedson - 1996-09-01

Hardback. Very Good.

ISBN: 9780226265025
The University of Chicago Press, 12 Sep 1996
Paperback, 260 pages
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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

Hardback. New. 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.

Univ of Chicago Pr, 1996. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 260 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New. 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.

University of Chicago Press. paperback. New. 96x14x144. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Univ of Chicago Pr, 1996. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 260 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches.

University of Chicago Press, 1996-09-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!