Theatre, Ritual and Transformation: The Senoi Temiars

by Sue Jennings

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415119901
• ISBN13: 9780415119900
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.5"