Dialogues with the Dead: The Discussion of Mortality Among the Sora of Eastern IndiaCambridge University Press, 1993 M08 12 - 294 páginas Piers Vitebsky's study of religion, healing and psychology in tribal India focuses on a unique dialogue between the living and the dead, conducted through a shaman. By exploring memories of emotional attachments, the Sora people negotiate the meaning of particular deaths. Vitebsky analyzes these relationships over a period of years, and develops a typology of moods of the dead. He contrasts Sora procedures with the treatment of bereavement in psychoanalysis, and shows how Sora dialogues with the dead serve to negotiate relationships with other members of the community. |
Contenido
A note on shamans and other intermediaries | 18 |
The Sora people | 24 |
The formation of the Sora person | 46 |
Interpreting and persuading the dead | 66 |
Transcription of a dialogue from the inquest on Jamano | 99 |
Redeeming the dead and protecting the living | 121 |
Transcription of a dialogue with nineteen dead persons | 149 |
states of mind among | 176 |
Forgetting the dead | 216 |
Dialogues with the self? Sora bereavement and | 236 |
List of sonums recorded in Alinsing | 260 |
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Términos y frases comunes
active agent Alinsing Amboni Ancestor-Men Ancestors aspect attack baby become bereaved Borjanu brothers buffalo called cause chapter child consciousness cremation cross-cousin dead person death-Experience deceased descendants dialogue died discussion drink Earth site Earth sites Earth-Memory Earth-Sonum Experience sonums father feelings figure Freud funeral shaman Gadi Gomang grain Gunupur Headman healing Hollow Water husband illness imagery Indupur inheritance inquest interlocutors Jagatumba Jamano karja leopard Leopard-Sonum lineage lineage's linked living Lumbago Maianti male marriage married melancholia Memory Mengalu Mo'mo mother mourner Oindo Oriya Palda Panderi passive path patient Ra'tud Ra'tud-Sonum Ranatang rauda redeemed redemption redemption song relationship rememberers residence rite Rumbana Rungkudi Rutujen sacrifice Sagalo Sangkaroren Sarsuno sense Sindi sisters someone sonums Sora Sora language sorcery soul speak stages stone-planting sub-Experiences suicide Sun-Sonum Sunia symptoms Tabaro Telugu Tongseng trance Underworld verb verdict victim village voice woman women words