| Description |
1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- List of figures -- Introduction -- Cunera Buijs and Wouter Welling -- 1 Invisible forces and spirits -- Cunera Buijs and Wouter Welling -- Getting a second pair of eyes: the precarious balance of healing and killing in Cameroon -- Peter Geschiere -- Intimate relations between hunters and spirits in northwest Greenland -- Terto Ngiviu -- Winti healing and the Surinamese community in the Netherlands -- Marian Markelo -- Magical Consciousness and Healing Spirits -- Susan Greenwood -- 2 Healing stories and images -- Cunera Buijs and Wouter Welling |
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A Dutch way to witchcraft: the 'Wolderse Heks' from Waalre -- Coby Rijkers -- Visions at work: when an untold story becomes a ghost -- Barbara Helen Miller and Sigvald Persen -- Drawings in Balinese Healing and Magic -- David J. Stuart-Fox -- Enchanted world: invisible forces and spirits -- Daan van Kampenhout -- 3 Museum magic -- Cunera Buijs and Wouter Welling -- Powerful things, transformations of museum objects, cases from the Arctic -- Cunera Buijs -- Roots and the art of healing -- Anatoly Donkan and Ulrike Bohnet M.A. -- Kabra healing: ancestors and colonial memory in the Netherlands |
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Markus Balkenhol -- Shamanism in transition: ritual masks among the Piaroa -- Claudia Augustat -- 4 Balance and harmony -- Cunera Buijs and Wouter Welling -- Aakujk'äjt-Jotkujk'äjtën: balance and harmony in Ayuuk culture -- Juan Carlos Reyes Gómez -- Mentawai shamans in Indonesia: restoring threatened harmony -- Reimar Schefold -- Life Itself is a Polyrhythm - On Healing -- Maria van Daalen -- 5 Global interactions -- Cunera Buijs and Wouter Welling -- Transforming traditions: ayahuasca in the Netherlands and Peru -- Sebastiaan van 't Holt |
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Healing music: psychedelic trance and the search for balance -- Iris Hesse -- Art and the Otherworld: visualizing the invisible -- Wouter Welling -- About the authors -- Blank Page |
| Summary |
Hidden healing practices exert fascination and stimulate extensive scientific and public interest. It is a contested topic for many indigenous peoples. Throughout the ages, numerous spiritual healing forms have been marginalized or severely persecuted. Nowadays, however, there is a growing interest in these traditions all over the world. Some are recovered and sometimes also mixed resulting in the blending of different indigenous and Western approaches.After t |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Mental healing.
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Mental Healing
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Mental healing
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Buijs, C
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Welling, W.
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| ISBN |
9088909202 |
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9789088909207 |
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