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5. “Riding the Horse of Gaps”: A Meratus Woman's Spiritual Expression

Cornell University Press eBooks July 6, 2018 Anna Tsing

Adu hai, Riding the horse of gaps, babe.Swept by the wind, Riding the horse of gaps, friend. -Induan HilingThis essay presents several dream-inspired shamanic pictures and associated songs from the Meratus Mountains of Indonesia.They are a woman's work, and I ask in what way that makes a difference.

CHAPTER 6. Mystical Pathography: A Case of Maso-fetishism in the Goncourts' Madame Gervaisais

Cornell University Press eBooks July 6, 2018 Emily S. Apter

The nineteenth-century medicalization of religious excess was given its greatest impetus by Jean-Martin Charcot and Paul Richer in their iconographic and clinical studies of hysteria.In Charcot's /conographie photographique de la Salpetriere (1876), Les Demoniaques dans l'art ( i 886), and La Foi qui guerit ( 1897) and in Richer's Etudes cliniques sur la grande hysterie (1881/85), they examined...