Spirits captured in stone
Subtitle: shamanism and traditional medicine among the Taman of Borneo
By: Jay H. Bernstein.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Taman (Bornean people) -- Religion.; Taman (Bornean people) -- Medicine; Taman (Bornean people) -- Rites and ceremonies.; Traditional medicine -- Borneo.; Shamanism -- Borneo.; Borneo -- Social life and customs.
Description: "This fascinating case study focuses on shamanism and the healing practices of the Taman, a formerly tribal society indigenous to the interior of Borneo. The Taman typically associate illness with an encounter with spirits that both seduce and torment a person in dreams or waking life. Rather than use medicines to counter the effect of these discomforting visitors, the shamans - called baliens - use stones that are said to contain the convergence of wild spirits that have come into being during the initiation ceremony"--Page 209.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.