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...