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Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice

Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice 188 Reviews perhaps the most important and difficult to ignore in our quest to understand corpor- ate social forms. Overall Golub succeeds in presenting complex ideas and arguments in a readable and at times entertaining fashion. Scholars interested in kinship, cosmology and ver- nacular ideas of personhood and social relations should find the volume to be highly relevant to understanding emergent ideas about kinship. While non-anthropologists and undergraduate students of anthropology may find portions of the text challenging, the rich ethnography will reward the reader. SIMON KENEMA University of St Andrews © 2016, Simon Kenema http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2015.1101799 ISABELL HERRMANS New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2015 In Ritual Retellings Isabell Herrmans documents in rich ethnographic detail a variety of belian shamanistic curing rituals of the Luangan swidden-cultivating Indigenous people of Southeast Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). The book is grounded in con- crete case studies of belian rituals observed by the author in several Luangan villages during fieldwork conducted on several occasions between 1993 and 2011. Drawing on her field experiences, Herrmans challenges the notion of rituals as neatly formatted, pre-arranged and closely bounded, otherworldly events, arguing instead that belian rituals are flexible, unbounded, unpredictable and situationally emergent healing performances unfolding in everyday http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice

Jokic, Zeljko
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology , Volume 17 (2): 3 – Mar 14, 2016
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Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice

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188 Reviews perhaps the most important and difficult to ignore in our quest to understand corpor- ate social forms. Overall Golub succeeds in presenting complex ideas and arguments in a readable and at times entertaining fashion. Scholars interested in kinship, cosmology and ver- nacular ideas of personhood and social relations should find the volume to be highly relevant to understanding emergent ideas about kinship. While non-anthropologists and undergraduate students of...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2016, Zeljko Jokic
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1740-9314
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1444-2213
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10.1080/14442213.2015.1103265
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188 Reviews perhaps the most important and difficult to ignore in our quest to understand corpor- ate social forms. Overall Golub succeeds in presenting complex ideas and arguments in a readable and at times entertaining fashion. Scholars interested in kinship, cosmology and ver- nacular ideas of personhood and social relations should find the volume to be highly relevant to understanding emergent ideas about kinship. While non-anthropologists and undergraduate students of anthropology may find portions of the text challenging, the rich ethnography will reward the reader. SIMON KENEMA University of St Andrews © 2016, Simon Kenema http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2015.1101799 ISABELL HERRMANS New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2015 In Ritual Retellings Isabell Herrmans documents in rich ethnographic detail a variety of belian shamanistic curing rituals of the Luangan swidden-cultivating Indigenous people of Southeast Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). The book is grounded in con- crete case studies of belian rituals observed by the author in several Luangan villages during fieldwork conducted on several occasions between 1993 and 2011. Drawing on her field experiences, Herrmans challenges the notion of rituals as neatly formatted, pre-arranged and closely bounded, otherworldly events, arguing instead that belian rituals are flexible, unbounded, unpredictable and situationally emergent healing performances unfolding in everyday

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