Pain, Play and Music: Death and Healing Rites Among the Wana by Scalici, Giorgio

Pain, Play and Music: Death and Healing Rites Among the Wana

The Wana people of Morowali accept the experiences of pain, illness and loss and transform them into...
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Author: Giorgio Scalici
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Language: English
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Pain, Play and Music: Death and Healing Rites Among the Wana by Scalici, Giorgio

Pain, Play and Music: Death and Healing Rites Among the Wana

€108,28

Pain, Play and Music: Death and Healing Rites Among the Wana

€108,28
Author: Giorgio Scalici
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Giorgio Scalici
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 05/16/2024
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781350236257

About the Author

Giorgio Scalici is a research fellow at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, President
of the Italian Network on Death and Oblivion and Membership Secretary of the
Association for the Study of Death and Society.


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