Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer: An Ethnographic Film Monograph

by Linda Connor

Book Overview

Jero Tapakan is a popular village spirit medium on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Clients consult her about problems ranging from physical and mental illness to theft and advice on ritual matters. This book is a fascinating case-study of healing in a Southeast Asian society, and is unique because the book is integrated with film of specific patient treatments, as well as of Jero's own reflections on her life and work. Healer Jero, anthropologist Linda...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521311446
• ISBN13: 9780521311441
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.7"