Restoring the Balance: Performing Healing in West Papua - Brossura

Courtens, Ien

Brossura

ISBN 10: 9067182788 ISBN 13: 9789067182782

Casa editrice: Brill Academic Pub, 2009

Riassunto

The study offers an ethnographically rich journey through the variety of healing methods in current Ayfat society: indigenous (obtained during female and male initiation rites), biomedical (the missionary hospital), and Christian (created by ritual healers since the coming of the missionaries). Likewise, the causes ascribed to illness range from sorcery, witchcraft, violation of ancestral or biblical rules, to biomedical conditions, a multiplicity of ways of understanding illness and healing that emerged in the context of religious change. Making choices among the variety of healing performances, and the creation of new performances, are shown to be dynamic processes. At the core are the innovative contributions of local healers, particularly women, who chose to create new performances in the face of religious change. Restoring the Balance looks at indigenous and Christian religious practices, and how people in northwest Ayfat have found a way to integrate the two and bring both sides into balance.

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L'autore:

Dr Ien Courtens studied anthropology and worked for ten years as a lecturer and researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She has done postdoctoral research on Marian pilgrimages on Java in relation to healing.

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Book by Ien Courtens

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Brill Academic Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9067182788
• ISBN 13: 9789067182782
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 252