Taming The Wind Of Desire: Psychology, Medicine, And Aesthetics In Malay Shamanistic Performance; Author: Laderman, Carol; Paperback

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Taming The Wind Of Desire: Psychology, Medicine, And Aesthetics In Malay Shamanistic Performance

Author: Laderman, Carol
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care; Paperback; 21 B&w Photographs
382 pages
Published: March 1993
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0520082583
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An ethnographic study of Malay healing ceremonies involving the practices of shamen, who place their patients in a trance and encourage them to express their inner thoughts in a type of performance. The ceremony reveals a psychological content relevant to Western medical practice today.

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