Dancing Prophets - Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on Orthography Introduction: Ethnography as Possibility 1: To Dance and To Dream 2: God, Humans, and Spirits 3: Blood and Spirit: The Chilopa Sacrifice 4: The Musical Construction of Clinical Reality 5: In the Vimbuza Mode 6: Conclusion: An Ontology of Energy Epilogue Appendix A: Glossary of Vimbuza Spirits Appendix B: Vimbuza Rhythmic Mottos Appendix C: Vimbuza Song Texts Notes Bibliography Index

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Friedson, Steven M. Friedson, Friedson Steven M.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1996
• EAN: 9780226265025
• ISBN: 978-0-226-26502-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusico; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE (CHUP); Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Malawi, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Folk & traditional music, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music