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100 1 _aCourtens, Ien.
245 1 0 _aRestoring the balance :
_bperforming healing in West Papua /
_cIen Courtens.
264 1 _aLeiden :
_bKITLV Press.
264 4 _cc2008.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) :
_billustrations, mappages.
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aVerhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;
_v241
500 _aRev. version of the author's doctoral thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary Material -- Chapter I: Performing healing. An Introduction -- Chapter II: Mama Raja. The case -- Chapter III: Spirits of the living -- Chapter IV: Spirits of the underworld -- Chapter V: Performing indigenous healing -- Chapter VI: The missionary hospital -- Chapter VII: Mama Raja. The case continues -- Chapter VIII: Knowing God’s mysteries -- Chapter IX: Walking together -- Chapter X: Performing healing Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Healing plants -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aWho made Mama Raja ill? This question, buzzing around the village, starts off this anthropological study on healing performances in the context of religious change. The fascinating case is presented of a seriously ill woman of high standing in northwest Ayfat, located in the interior of the Bird’s Head in West Papua. By unravelling the various explanations of the cause of the illness, and the path Mama Raja followed in search of healing, the author documents how, why, and when Papuan people make their choices in their search for healing. The study offers an ethnographically rich journey through the variety of healing methods in current Ayfat society: indigenous (obtained during female and male initiation rites), biomedical (the missionary hospital), and Christian (created by ritual healers since the coming of the missionaries). Likewise, the causes ascribed to illness range from sorcery, witchcraft, violation of ancestral or biblical rules, to biomedical conditions, a multiplicity of ways of understanding illness and healing that emerged in the context of religious change. Making choices among the variety of healing performances, and the creation of new performances, are shown to be dynamic processes. At the core are the innovative contributions of local healers, particularly women, who chose to create new performances in the face of religious change. Restoring the Balance looks at indigenous and Christian religious practices, and how people in northwest Ayfat have found a way to integrate the two and bring both sides into balance. This book will be hightly useful to anthropologists and others interested in Melanesian and eastern Indonesian cultures, healing, spiritual healing, or religious change. It would make an attractive case study for university courses at any level.
610 2 0 _aCatholic Church
_xMissions
_zIndonesia
_zPapua.
650 0 _aMejprat (New Guinean people)
_xMedical care.
650 0 _aCatholic hospitals
_zIndonesia
_zPapua.
650 0 _aTraditional medicine
_zIndonesia
_zPapua.
650 0 _aMedical care
_zIndonesia
_zPapua.
650 0 _aHealing
_zIndonesia
_zPapua.
650 0 _aFolklore
_xPerformance
_zIndonesia
_zPapua.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aCourtens, Ien.
_tRestoring the balance.
_dLeiden : KITLV Press, c2008
_w(OCoLC)653412194
830 0 _aVerhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
_v241.
830 0 _aKITLV Press Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2012, ISBN: 9789004248687.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004253902
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