ePub Lives and Voices: Sources in European Women's History by From Houghton Mifflin in History

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Sue Jennings and her three children spent two years on a fieldwork expedition to the Senoi Temiar people of Malaysia: Theatre; Ritual and Transformation is a fascinating account of that experience. She describes how the Temiar regularly perform seances which are enacted through dreams; dance; music and drama; and explains that they see the seance as playing a valuable preventative role in people's lives; as well as being a medium of healing and cure. Her account brings together the insights of drama; therapy and theatre with those of social anthropology to provide an invaluable theoretical framework for understanding theatre and ritual and their links with healing.