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15 The Ensoundments of the Materially Ethereal in Indigenous Riau (Sumatra)

Amsterdam University Press eBooks October 10, 2024 Nathan Porath

This chapter is focused on sounds associated with ethereal matter (semanget) and its embodied manifestation that vitalizes human, animal, and material physicality.I discuss the therapeutic sounds which are humanly generated to mobilize the materially ethereal to "repair bodies" in the Sakai shamanic healing rituals called dikei.The Orang Sakai lived on the edge of the Malay kingdom of Siak.Most...

Ocular Anatomy, Chiasm, and Theatre Architecture as a Material Phenomenology in Early Modern Europe

Amsterdam University Press eBooks December 31, 2008 Pannill Camp 1 citation

Pannill CampHusserlian phenomenology , long a critical apparatus employed by theatre and performance scholars, is already infiltrated by a theatrical mode of thought that is more or less explicit in much of Husserl 's philosophy.It has chimerically incorporated the architecture of the theatre in the mode of the Western, frontally oriented, proscenium stage.Supporting such a claim requires a...