Between Hearing (samâ’) and Perceiving (wajd): neuropsychological considerations for the study of the healing potential of the Mevlevi Samâ’
DARUL IRFAN RESEARCH JOURNAL May 14, 2026 G. Guilhon, PhD Antunes Camargo
In the field of Dance Anthropology, the concept of 'ecstatic dance' has been used generically to refer to African, Afro-Brazilian, Middle Eastern and Shaman dances. Researchers as Jennings (1995), Baxman (1990), Gore (1995) and Camargo (1996) have begun to employ the concept more specifically, but very little is known about how these dances are induced. As a dance anthropologist, I turned to...