Unintelligibility and imaginative interpretation in a Petalangan healing ritual
Text and Talk January 20, 2007 Yoonhee Kang 2 citations
This article explores how ritual unintelligibility reconfigures participants' engagement, based on an analysis of two video clips of a belian performance, a shamanic healing ritual practiced among the Petalangan of Indonesia. These video clips show two phases of the ritual: the shaman's performance of a magic spell and a ritual song. The analysis reveals how a specific mode of unintelligibility...