TY - BOOK ID - 2635723 TI - Dancing prophets : musical experience in Tumbuka healing PY - 1996 VL - *3 SN - 0226265013 0226265021 PB - Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Music and dance KW - Musique et danse KW - Muziek en dans KW - Tumbuka (African people) KW - Healing KW - Music therapy KW - Ethnology KW - Music and dance. KW - Anthropologie sociale et culturelle KW - Music KW - Rites and ceremonies. KW - #SBIB:39A9 KW - #SBIB:39A5 KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps KW - Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - History and criticism. KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Malawi KW - Batumbuka (African people) KW - Nyasa (African people) KW - Siska (African people) KW - Sisya (African people) KW - Tambuka (African people) KW - Timbuka (African people) KW - Tombucas (African people) KW - Tonga (Malawi people) KW - Tumbuka (African tribe) KW - Watumbuka (African people) KW - Musical therapy KW - Musicotherapy KW - Dance and music KW - Curing (Medicine) KW - Music&delete& KW - History and criticism KW - Therapeutic use KW - Bantu-speaking peoples KW - Therapeutics KW - Psychotherapy and music KW - Dance KW - Music. KW - Nyasa (Malawian people) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2635723 AB - For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are saturated with music. In this groundbreaking ethnography, Steven M. Friedson 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 novel look at the relation between music and mental and biological health will interest medical anthropologists, Africanists, and religious scholars as well as ethnomusicologists. ER -