- Paperback: 260 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 2nd edition (12 Sep 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226265021
- ISBN-13: 978-0226265025
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 726,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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. Tumbuka healers diagnose diseases by enacting divination trances in which they "see" the causes of past events and their consequences for patients. Music is the structural nexus where healer, patient, and spirit meet - it is the energizing heat that fuels the trance, transforming both the bodily and social functioning of the individual. Friedson shows how the sound of the ng'oma drum, the clapping of the choir, call-and-response singing and the jangle of tin belts and iron anklets do not simply accompany other more important ritual activities - they are the very substance of a sacred clinical reality. This analysis of the relation between music and mental and biological health should interest medical anthropologists, Africanists, and religious scholars as well as ethnomusicologists.
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Steven M. Friedson is Distinguished Research Professor of Music and Anthropology at the of and the author of Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing.
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This is an incredible book and gives one of the best insights into traditional healing methods in Malawi. Having lived in Malawi i never really understood on what premise african traditional healing was based. I then studied homeopathy and vibrational medicine. This book shows how these healing methods are based on exactly the same concepts of resonance and vibrational healing. This is a complelling read for anyone interested in energy medicine. I can now understand and appreciate the wisdom of these healing methods and recognise the importance of such knowledge.
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