Pain, Play and Music: Death and Healing Rites Among the Wana
 
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ISBN13:9781350236257
ISBN10:135023625X
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:256 pages
Size:234x156 mm
Language:English
Illustrations: 15 bw illus
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Pain, Play and Music

Death and Healing Rites Among the Wana
 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Number of Volumes: Hardback
 
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The Wana people of Morowali accept the experiences of pain, illness and loss and transform them into something positive: rituals that celebrate life, friendship and the community. Through fieldwork with the Wana people of Morowali, Central Sulawesi, Giorgio Scalici shows how music serves as a connection between the human world and the hidden world of spirits and emotion.

By examining rituals such as the momago, the main Wana healing ritual, and the kayori, the funeral, this book investigates how music is used by the Wana to heal people, control emotions, reinforce the sense of community and to mark the cultural death of the community member. In this study, music transforms the pain of loss into a playful event that heals the community and assures its future.

This book will be of interest to the wider academic study of religion, anthropology and ethnomusicology as it looks as at funerals as healing rituals for the community which lead the living and the dead through critical times.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
Map
Foreword, Douglas Davies (Durham University)
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Theories and Themes
Part 2: A Cultural Framework of the Life and Reality of the Wana people
Part 3: The momago
Part 4: The kayori
Part 5: The Expression of Cultural Values in Rituals
Bibliography
Sitography
Videography
Index